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...into China was to risk having supply lines cut from the rear. Japan's only hope of quick victory lay in a flanking movement from the south that would cut off Chinese supplies and give the Japanese control of the principal Chinese war industries located in Yünnan Province...
With the coast effectively blockaded there seemed last week but two ways for any large amount of munitions to reach Chinese troops: from Russia, over the interminable caravan routes of Outer Mongolia, or from French Indo-China over the railroad from Hanoï to Yünnan in Yünnan Province. These would be thin trickles. China's only really efficient arsenal was at Mukden, has been in Japanese hands since 1931. Total output of other arsenals in China can provide about 800,000 rounds of rifle ammunition daily (about half a round per soldier), a few field...
...business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical, which retained the name Kuo Mintang; a conservative, formed from Sun's Yünnan supporters, called the Yünnanese Party. The Yünnanese controlled Canton. The Kuo Mintang controlled the nearby island of Honan. The Yünnanese generals ordered the Kuo Mintang to cease movements of troops under penalty. The Kuo Mintang retorted by denouncing the Yünnanese generals...
Bandits in the Province of Yünnan captured Darcy Weatherbee, British mining engineer...