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...such trained men. In that first summer of the war, China's Education Ministry secretly sent students to Tientsin, Peking, other university centres, through them transmitted instructions to the nation's undergraduates. Some were to gather inland at Changsha, others were to filter through enemy lines to Sian. Thousands of students gathered at these rendezvous, made shift to study while they awaited further orders. In the spring of 1938 the orders came. Then began one of history's strangest migrations-an orderly retreat of China's civilization...
...From Sian 1,500, including 300 girls, set out on foot. They trudged along the cavernous bed of the Han River, threaded dense forests, climbed by foot trails aver precipitous cliffs of the Tsingling Mountains. Chinese military authorities supplied them with food: rice, a few vegetables, hard wheat cakes. Three of them, a professor and two students-died of typhoid. But on the tenth day, after a 180-mile journey, they reached their destination, Hanchung. There and in nearby Chengku they started new universities...
Japan has just about given up the idea of taking Chungking. Her objectives, all of which she may be able to get, are: 1) Sian, main link between North China and Chungking; 2) Lanchow, key to Rus sian aid to China; 3) a complete cut-through in the Southwest...
...defense picture completely changed. The General Staff poured troops back into Bessarabia and rushed construction of border fortifications. King Carol took Premier George Tatarescu and most of his Cabinet by special train on a four-day Bessarabian inspection trip. In Chisinau, capital of the province, leaders of the Rus sian, Ukrainian and German minorities were brought around to meet His Majesty. They swore : "We pledge our lives for our beloved Rumanian fatherland...
...there, he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles) in five hours. Thence it took him five days by train to get to the Yellow River (70 miles)-his train jumped the track once, a bridge washed out under it once. He was given a horse, and for three solid weeks (rising at five, riding ten hours a day, sleeping wherever night caught him) he followed precarious mountain passes until he came to the Chin Valley...