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According to all sources here, the Japs used the route for local traffic only. Occasionally troops moved to Liuchow 100 miles north, or Indo-China 100 miles south. But the Fourteenth Air Force kept the roads useless. Frequently the Japs were forced to rely upon files of impressed Chinese coolies, hauling sacks of bullets to the Indo-China garrisons...
Nanning fell. Far south in China, Chinese armies snapped the railroad lifeline (now at last referred to as a line of retreat) for Japan's armies in Malaya, Thailand and Indo-China. Farther north, other Chinese armies hacked doggedly at the same strategic artery whose seizure by Japan a year ago brought China to the brink. On the central coast a third Chinese force, having dislodged the Japanese from the port of Foochow, fanned north and west, preparing a possible landing zone for U.S. forces...
...Welcome a French fighting force in the Pacific war (the French have long been anxious to take part in the recovery of French Indo-China...
...France wanted to send several divisions to help reconquer Indo-China...
...aplenty this week. On the coast, Japanese forces, apparently redeploying against a possible U.S. landing, abandoned the great port of Foochow. The high command announced a new Chinese offensive in the south, with the capture of Hochih, a heavily fortified rail town guarding Japan's supply route to Indo-China. And Chungking was still savoring its victory in the campaign for Chihkiang (TIME...