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Fifty Japanese bombers pounded airfields in Fukien, Kiangsi, and Hunan Provinces in what the Central News Agency called a "deliberate effort to wipe out Allied air bases in east and south China." Some of the fields lay within 700 miles of Japan. The wonderful thing to the newspaper readers was word that planes of the Chinese air force had gone into the air to fight back; and had even bombed Japanese garrisons. "Hun hun hao," they said-"wonderful...
...Front is the place where any Chinese offensive will have to start. To Washington last week the Generalissimo dispatched a distinguished Chinese military mission. Its head is rugged, handsome General Hsiung Shih-hui (who speaks excellent Japanese but little English), who has been a divisional commander and Governor of Kiangsi Province...
Last week the lamb rose up and bit the wolf. Having been chased hurry-scurry from Kiangsi Province right to the suburbs of Changsha, Hunan, the Chinese turned around and, with a fury they have never shown before, lashed the Japanese back and back. This week a Japanese spokesman in Shanghai had to admit that his country's forces had returned to positions they occupied when the drive started...
...Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
With an air arm knocking the Chinese Army on top of the head while infantry dealt uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese...