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...shek's armies. With only a trickle of traffic going over the long rail and motor route from British Burma, the Chinese are now almost wholly dependent on the Soviet Union for their foreign supplies. These are either flown in by Russian planes or trucked in over the Sian-AIma Ata highway, linking China with Soviet territory, or the Lanchow-Ulan Bator Khoto highway, connecting China with Sovietized Outer Mongolia. Last week Japanese troops were spotted in Inner Mongolia, headed for the Lanchow-Ulan Bator Khoto road...
...Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck caravans down an ancient 3,000-mile trail, now modernized with gas & supply depots, running from Russian Alma Ata to Sian...
This week, to insure the Japanese against outraging noncombatants, General Ugaki laid out a vast no-man's land- all territory east of an imaginary line from Sian, in Shensi, to Pakhoi, on the Gulf of Tong-king close to French Indo-China -which he asked foreigners to evacuate...
Chinese officials minimized the Japanese rail-link snipping at Szeshui, pointed out that there still remained open a five-day highway connection between Hankow and Sian. They announced that at Tungkwan, where the river crooks like an elbow between Shensi and Shansi Provinces, Chinese troops were still holding the main body of Japanese troops to the opposite bank of the river...
Military observers were ready last week to declare that, even if the Japanese now cross the Yellow River barrier and press on to Sian, their next objective, the magnificent month-long resistance by the ill-equipped Chinese armies ranks as a high-spot of the entire war. Chief factor in their success has been the employment of a new strategy-instead of retreating en masse before a Japanese front attack, the Chinese now split up into large-sized guerilla contingents, harass the Japanese at widely scattered points along the front. The Japanese have been forced to fan out their estimated...