Word: hwangshaho
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...hoped to hold the Japs in Hwangshaho Pass, north of Chuanhsien, 90 miles from Kweilin. But four days ago, the line gave. Kweilin, with its airfields, had to be evacuated-destroyed, abandoned, leaving the Japanese only its ruins, and it had to be done in 36 hours...
Bottleneck. One natural defense remained. A scant 15 miles south of the Kwangsi border, before which the Japs were poised, is the Hwangshaho defile, where river, railroad and highway all pass through a gap five miles wide and eight miles long. Here, if anywhere, a stand must be made. But it must be made with lesh against machines. Cabled TIME'S Correspondent Teddy White: "Kwangsi's one resource, its one hope of resistance, now lies in marshaling a people's army such as helped to stop the Japanese in their first penetration of this province four years...
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