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...south Pacific, the Jap halted in The Netherlands East Indies, partly because he had used up his momentum. Now he was busy with logistics, preparing his positions for new assaults-perhaps on India, perhaps on Australia, where for the moment he was outclassed...
Many of the simple, helpless Burmese peasants had fled their farms, depriving the Chinese of guides, carriers and food, but otherwise not aiding the Japs. But some Burmese sold out to the Japs; some actually joined the Jap Army. At night sudden fires set by Burmese traitors betrayed Chinese positions. Burmese guerrillas caught two Chinese soldiers, chopped off their hands. But the Chinese fought on, and the Japs came...
General Stilwell chain-smoked cigarets in a long black holder, incessantly chewed gum, exchanged orders and information in his fluent Chinese (the fruit of 13 years' service in China). When Jap bombers broke up his conferences, he calmly took cover and kept on chewing gum. He soon saw that the Japanese blocked the way to Toungoo, that relief of the town was impossible without air support. A Chinese field radio flashed an order to the commander in Toungoo; at an appointed place and hour, he was to lead his men in a break through the Japanese lines. General Stilwell...
...Chinese had no choice but to abandon the town. Across brushlands and rice paddies, they rushed from the sheltering trees and houses of Toungoo. Jap artillery fired pointblank. The Chinese scattered, broke through to the Sittang River, waded and swam it, under constant fire. They took their losses, but they won through to the main Chinese forces in the north. For every dead Chinese on the fields and hills around Toungoo, they left four dead Japs...
Tokyo fears, and Chungking hopes, that long-range U.S. bombers may soon attack Japan from South China. Flying Fortresses, such as those evacuated from Java to Australia, could easily bomb the great Jap base on Formosa, 300 miles southeast of the Chinese airdrome at Lishui. With flights no longer than Fortresses have made in other battle areas, bombers from Lishui and Chuhsien could reach Kobe or Kyoto in Japan itself...