Word: manchuria
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...more than ever, the Road was a military "must." The Japanese, with unbroken communications from Manchuria to the South China Sea, were bulging westward. With the capture of Ishan they ousted the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force from another airstrip. Under personal command of scrawny, high-powered Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, the Japanese now headed for the Chinese end of the Burma-Chungking Road. Only 180 miles away, they stood a good chance of cutting the Road below Chungking before the Chinese at the other end opened...
...Japs by steady reinforcement had replaced them, then had landed 10,000 more. Jap units identified included the 16th Division (now virtually annihilated, said MacArthur), the 1st, 30th, 102nd and the crack 26th Division which had last been heard of as a part of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria...
Pace that Kills. The grand total for two days: 440 planes, laboriously siphoned out of Manchuria and other northern bases for the last-ditch stand in the Philippines. No air force could stand this rate of attrition. The Japs knew it. But all they could do about it was to speed measures for evacuating eleven of their largest cities and improvising air raid shelters-to be planned within a week and finished within five days thereafter...
...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 China Sea and the Japs would have brought off one of the great victories of the war in Asia...
There was other disturbing Russian news for Japan. Paper-short Moscow had allowed 700 pages for a novel by Alexander Stepanov called Port Arthur. Not only Japanese eyebrows might be raised by the book's description of Port Arthur (which is in Manchuria, and hence claimed by China) as a leading Russian port on the Pacific...