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...Central China, usually free of strong Red forces, the Communists were rampaging along the strategic east-west Lunghai railway, and staging diversionary raids down to the Yangtze River...
Center of Impact. Last week the focus of fighting was along the east-west Lunghai Railroad. There Communists had surged south to capture Kaifeng, and 90 miles of track. Nationalist armies counterattacked, and pushed the Communists off the railroad east of Kaifeng...
...found China's war completely baffling. Its ultimate strategy hinged on control of China's arterial railroads. Like a huge capital A, these trunk lines run from Peiping (at the northern apex of the A) southward to Hankow and Nanking. The bar across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold Northern China. Communists hoped to pour...
From the 20,000-sq.-mile blighted area, refugees are streaming in hundreds of thousands along two main routes: the Lunghai railway and the trail of the old Peking-Hankow railway. The Government has placed a free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out 1,500 people every 24 hours. But the jammed cars, stuffed with clinging, clambering people, are evacuating only a portion of the stricken hordes. Four or five thousand people daily are setting out on the westward march along the line...
After Five Years. They read other news which seemed good: about how the Japanese, near the end of five years of war, had been forced to start a battle in Shantung Province, far in the north, near where the whole war had begun; about how they had bombed the Lunghai Railway, which the Japanese had tried to break almost as many times as the line has ties; and of course about how the American friends had beaten part of the Japanese Fleet. They spat when they read that the traitor Wang Ching-wei had gone to Manchukuo, where the Japanese...