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...return there to defend it. Last week the withdrawing movement gave the Chinese the big prize of Wenchow, ancient treaty port on the east coast. Its occupation increased the Chinese-held coastline to 280 unbroken miles. Another and bigger prize, due to fall momentarily, would be Liuchow, onetime U.S. air base...
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...
...Japanese withdrew from their hard-won corridor through South China, the Chinese Army, cleaning up scattered resistance, cautiously advanced in their wake. Along a 180-mile front in Kwangsi Province, eager Chinese drew near to prizes they had lost a year ago-the air-base cities of Liuchow and Kweilin. This week TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White, first newsman to enter the recaptured corridor and "visit Nanning, radioed this report...
Chinese troops entered Nanning at noon the next day, encountered no serious opposition and rapidly moved forces both north and south until they held about 100 miles of the corridor. At present they stand about 20 miles from Liuchow, which will probably fall when the Jap timetable reaches the proper...
...Furies. The Jap tide still rolled on. It rolled up to the great air force base at Liuchow. Gleason and his men did their ruinous best there. They wanted to fire the city too, but wretched Chinese householders, waving guns, refused to let them...