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...east, particularly in Kiangsi Province, where by a series of explosive sallies it made the Jap's life miserable. It shook his hold from the eastern railroad net, sliced a big piece out of the vital Chekiang-Kiangsi railway he had spent so much blood to win. From Shensi Province in the inland north to Kwangtung on the southeast coast it snatched villages from the invaders. It lost others, but always it fought...
...Norman Bethune. A noted Canadian chest surgeon, Dr. Bethune established the first wartime blood transfusion system in Spain. In 1938 he went to China. He established a 300-bed base hospital in Wutai, which is the surgical centre serving 12,000,000 people. A 150-bed hospital in North Shensi, named after him, winds through 30 caves. In the fall of 1939, while operating with bare hands (rubber gloves are scarce in China) Dr. Bethune infected his finger, died of blood poisoning...
Cooperatives entirely revitalized whole towns. In Shuangshipu (Shensi Province), Indusco enrolled 1,200 people-one-tenth of the town's total population. The other nine-tenths live almost solely by supplying services to Indusco members and their families...
Riches. Some day Shansi may be China's Pennsylvania (see map). The province is watered by tributaries of the Yellow River, which divides Shansi from Shensi. Shansi's rough mountains are heavy with anthracite and iron, and because lack of communications has so far meant limited exploitation, the coal-poor, iron-hungry Japanese want it more than any other inland province. The Chinese, who realize that losing it means surrendering their last talon-hold in North China, have hung on like eagles. Some of China's best fighting men are there, reports Reporter White: the hard-riding...
Three weeks ago it was reported that 300,000 Russian troops had moved into Sinkiang. Last week Japanese sources reported that China's four northwestern-most provinces-Sinkiang, Kansu, Ning-shia, Shensi-from which the famed Communist Eighth Route Army has kept the Japanese, are being systematically Soviet-ized. And from Paris came word that Russia is to transfer tanks, howitzers, machine guns, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns captured in Poland by both the Red and German Armies across Russia and into China...