Word: salween
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church service came in fading, surging waves over half the earth's surface to the ears of TIME's Correspondent Teddy White. He was aboard a U.S. bomber in China, returning from a Christmas Eve visit to the Japanese army on the Salween River front. Afterward he cabled the following dispatch...
...bottomless river) is the Salween, which curls for 200 miles through the mountains of Yünnan. Along its west bank the Japanese had nurtured themselves, gathering their strength. Near Tengyueh they struck. Three columns, altogether some 6,000 veteran troops, swung north and east with the apparent intention of outflanking Chinese troops scattered along the Burma Road...
Since July, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers have clung to the east bank of the malaria-infested Salween (TIME, Dec. 7). For months they have guarded the pocked and broken upper half of the Burma Road which still belongs to them. In the first few days of the fighting in the gorge of the Wu-ti Ho last week they turned back the prongs of the Jap advance...
Theirs was the strangest battlefront in the world. Six months ago, when the Japs crossed the Salween River on their drive up the Burma Road, crack units of China's Army rushed in and drove the Japs back across the river, then took up a 200-mile-long position on the Salween's east bank. In the terrible summer heat and torrential rains of the pestilential country, they settled down to a nightmare existence...
Dying Weather. Mountains, mottled green, yellow, red and grey, tower thousands of feet into the air, drop precipitously into the emerald green Salween, called by the natives Wu-ti Ho, the River without a Bottom. In the jungles with the Chinese were leopards and tigers, pythons that swallowed whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked...