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...last week men killed each other in northeastern Hunan. They were fighting for no new victories to write on regimental records. They were fighting simply for rice...
...Hunan-a round-bellied province that hangs like a bubble suspended from the lake country of the middle Yangtze* is famous for the most beautiful women, the most peppery food, the most savage fighting peasantry in China. More than anything else it is famous as the rice-bowl province of China. Its lush wet fields produce nearly 10% of Free China's stupendous annual 47-million-ton rice harvest...
...freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...
Japan's potential victims plucked up their courage too. In Chungking the Hunan Provincial People's Political Council stepped into the dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Communists, appealed to Communist Leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh to end the "undiscipline" of Communist Army units and join the Government in a fresh attack on Japan. In Vichy the French Government announced that it would reject Japan's terms for ending the Thailand-Indo-China war, that French Indo-China would resume fighting rather than give Thailand 50,000 square miles of territory...
...Montebello, California; and Charles C. Stelle 2G, of Cambridge. Resident fellowships went to Eugene P. Boardman 3G, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Te-K'un Cheng 2B, of Kulangsu, Amoy, China; Yuliang Chou 1G., of Tientsin, China; Richard N. Frye 1G., of Danville, Illinois; and Sau-Yu Teng 2G., of Hunan, China...