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...market rate of 200 Chinese dollars to one U.S. dollar. This gave rise to a faint hope that the rate might be stabilized, a start made towards a basis for postwar trade. Last week this hope went aglimmering. The Chinese dollar, which slipped after the fall of Kweilin and Liuchow, tobogganed to one-third of its previous value. Last week it took 600 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Businessmen, who have long staggered under loads of currency on their way to the bank, now hire coolies to carry the day's receipts...
...dreary process began all over again at Liuchow, 100 miles to the southwest. Colonel Richard Wise, commanding the Third Sector, China Air Service Command, worked around the clock to get out all the men, equipment and supplies which he had worked the year around to get in-up to 3,000 planeloads flown over the costly Hump route; a million gallons of aviation fuel, torturously accumulated and stored, now impossible to save. With the Japs only 30 miles away, a U.S.O. troupe dropped in and gave a show.* Said Sergeant William Gould: "This is the most cheerful crisis...
Jungle Retrievers. Last week the enemy's armor-tipped columns speared into Kweilin through the tired 35 divisions of China's "Old Ironsides," General Chang Fa-kwei. They closed in on Liuchow, and the eighth of our air bases was missing. Simultaneously the enemy drove for Nanning. The gap between the Japs' north and south China forces already had been closed; now, if the drive for Nanning succeeded, the enemy would have through lines from Manchuria to Indo-China and thence to Singapore. The Fourteenth Air Force would be pushed back hundreds of miles from the South...
Meanwhile, the northern arm of the pincers thrust out three fingers to grasp Kweilin itself. To the Chinese its loss seemed inevitable. Far more disturbing now was a new threat to another of the Fourteenth's bases; the Japs seemed headed for Liuchow, 100 miles southwest of Kweilin...
...Japanese this constant infiltration of supplies has been a Class-A problem, for no kind of raiding could stop it. In January of this year a full 17% of China's imports passed through the railhead at Liuchow, south of Kweilin. These are official figures; by unofficial estimates far more supplies were transshipped there...