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Japan's plan to capture Hankow, China's acting capital, is first to cut all the city's communications, then gradually encircle it. Last week, a Japanese column tightened the net around the capital by capturing strategic Hwangchwan, north of the Yangtze. Another column captured one of a series of river booms at Wusueh, 100 miles down the river from Hankow. Meanwhile, Japanese aviators bombed away at their main objective, the Canton-Hankow Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Life Line | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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