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...politically more important area between Shanghai and Nanking. Chinese leaders have been talking for weeks about how their troops would be able to hold "for six months" against Japanese onslaughts "the Chinese Hindenburg Line," Fushan-Soochow-Kashing. Its thousands of cement pillbox forts built upon hummocks in swampy terrain appeared most formidable, and bulwark of this Hindenburg Line was Soochow. Fortnight ago Chinese dignitaries appealed to foreigners to urge their governments to ask the Japanese to "spare highly cultured Soochow the horrors of bombing"-not that these Chinese doubted it could and would be defended. One day last week Japanese...
...crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets had slain Correspondent Stephens. The Japanese command soon said these had been fired at Chinese (an impossibility, considering the terrain), heaved Japanese sighs at "the passing of this distinguished British journalist...
...held by the U. S. S. R. who claim a movement of 66,000,000 Ibs. last year and who recently flew 10,000 sheep to collective farms over 342 miles of the Turkmen Republic's desert. Canada, serving millions of square miles of lake-dotted, forested terrain above the "civilization line," annually handles 25,000,000 Ib. After the U. S., South America probably stands fourth, but with its 60,000 miles of airways, its immediate air cargo potentialities are as great as any other land...
...tanks; fogs and rains made aerial bombing almost impossible. Whipped on by El Caudillo ("The Chief") Franco's demands that "Gijon must fall before the snow," Rightist troops did capture a vitally important strategic peak on the Gijon front, but the city was still 30 miles of rough terrain from its attackers. Gijon refugees reaching France last week reported "the city is near starvation...
...President spent a week roving through the vast forests and high mountains of the most heroic terrain in the U. S. as though he had on Bunyan's boots. Bonneville Dam, 170 ft. high, 1,250 ft. long is being built by War Department engineers complete with staircases as well as two electric elevators for traveling salmon...