Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops, to reinforce the army on the Manchukuoan-Siberian frontier...
Poised for such a strike is a Jap army of 1,000,000 on the Manchukuoan frontier. Thousands of men are building new highways and railways over which the mechanized divisions would roll. Between 1934 and 1939 airfields along the Siberian border have been increased from 130 to 250. If Japan could afford the planes to stock these airfields and give her northern army aerial support, the chances of a drive on eastern Siberia would be better...
...road through Malta, Cyprus and Libya to Suez and Mediterranean mastery. Britain still had a creeping fear that the Germans might attempt a blow at the home island. The Chinese in Chungking, skilled at reading Japanese plans and strength, predicted an imminent Japanese assault on Russia's Siberian rear-a drive which could rob the U.S. of prospective bases for attack on Japan...
Failing supplies via India, China must fall back on two devious, difficult routes from Siberia, across the long reaches of Mongolia and Sinkiang. Truck roads, now built and usable, touch Russia's trans-Siberian railway system at two points. Over these lines recently China has received some of Russia's captured German booty-Mauser rifles, machine guns, antitank and anti-aircraft guns. But Joseph Stalin's own interior war traffic jams his railways, and his outward routes to the United Nations are none too sufficient and secure...
...Tokyo had not been bombed from Siberian bases, when Reader Diaz wrote, for a good reason: Siberian bases belong to Russia and Russia, for good reasons (TIME, Dec. 22), was not at war with Japan. U.S. bombers cannot reach Tokyo from Alaska and return without refueling en route. But Reader Dìaz' words are welcome as a bellicose sample of Mexican feeling about...