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...Chinese lost Hengyang (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), but last week they had better news than a military victory. For a bumper rice crop-in some provinces the best in 40 years-China's peasants gave thanks to Lao Tien Yieh, Old Father Heaven...
Slowly the Chinese units fell back. To the battlewise lao ping, China's G.L, it was clear: he had not the strength to halt the enemy, nor the air support which he enjoyed in the battles in the south. Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth had no good bases in the north...
...Lao Ping (Old Soldier), the Chinese equivalent of the U.S. Army's G.I. Joe, is a husky, shaven-pated peasant who has learned the tricks of silent deployment, timely retreat, ingenious ambuscade. But China's armies are defensive, their determination is only to hold on until Allied help comes. Many of Japan's 400,000 troops in China proper are overage, battle-green. Picked, raw units are sometimes sent to China for battle training, often initiate minor battles to get this training. But in general the debilitating psychological effect of the stalemate...
...only 8,000 men. The Japanese had plenty of tanks and artillery; the Chinese had no tanks, almost no artillery from Chiang Kai-shek's meager stocks in China. They had to fight with rifles, pistols, light machine guns. Sometimes the Chinese called out to the Japs: "Lao hsiang (old countryman), don't fight!" But the Japs fought...
...becomes more deeply involved in the lives of war refugees, the calm, breadth and mercy of Ch'an Buddhism more and more profoundly draw and disturb her. When monkish Lao Peng is so unlucky as to fall in love with her, that only makes things worse. Their difficulties are illuminated by several passages of straight theology which suggest how international is this war's religious revival...