Word: manchuria
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Facing certain defeat, the Japs could only take steps to ward off the final assault as long as possible. Example: the Japs decided that their aluminum industry must be re-geared to the use of low-grade ore found in their own islands and in Korea, Manchuria and north China; fine bauxite from Malaya and the islands would soon be cut off by the Allied recapture of the southern islands...
...divisions of about 20,000 men each, plus almost twice as many reserves and service troops. The 70 divisions are distributed: eight in the home islands; ten in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China and Malaya; 20 in the Philip pines, the Netherlands Indies and Pacific islands; 32 in China and Manchuria. In southeast Asia the Japs also have 70,000 quisling troops - Burmese, Malays, Thais and a few Indians. Militarily these are an unknown quantity...
...supply its Kwantung Army in Manchuria and its growing legions in China, Japan has begun to lean more heavily upon its steel industry in Manchuria. Blast furnaces there are closer to the source of coking coal, and the finished products can be shipped overland to the armies, easing the burden on the Japs' overtaxed, dwindling ship tonnage. Greatest of the steel works in Manchuria is at Anshan...
Said Communist Spokesman Lin Tso-han: "We would like to have a national congress called immediately." Cried Chungking's Dr. Wang Shih-chieh: "While Manchuria and other provinces are cut off from Free China, nationwide elections are impossible. The Government has promised all parties, including the Communists, equal status within one year after the war." There was charge and countercharge about the Chinese Red Army. Lin charged that Chungking wanted to cut its present strength of 470,000 men to 150,000. The Communists, retorted Dr. Wang, kept raising the ante: "At the beginning . . .Lin demanded twelve divisions...
...scholarly Oriental placed great emphasis on China's gigantic reconstruction job in the post-war years, and saw as one phase of the solution the large-scale immigration of Chinese farmers into regained Manchurlan land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...