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...southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link...
Great but vague battles took place last week along an east-west front about midway between Peking and Nanking, the rival capitals. In a general way this front lay along China's Lunghai R. R., with most of the fighting extending from Suchow (where President Chiang established military headquarters last week) 70 miles west towards Chengchow...
Fighting on, the Lunghai railway forced them to make a long detour adding a month to the trip. Later, in Shens! Province they found themselves in the wake of the defeated provincial army which had looted the villages along the road and largely wrecked the inns. The country was much upset and bands of robbers were frequent. Happily they had but one encounter with bandits. On the North west trade route they discovered some hitherto unreported rock grottoes of the sixth century, A. D. Enough evidence was there found to establish the date, but the sculpture had been badly destroyed...