Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pocket of Central China south of the Yangtze, hedged in on the north and south by the two great Jap bases at Hankow and Canton. Its fighters and bombers provide an air umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more active theaters...
Famed for centuries for its leaping, lusty rats, Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, declared war on rodents last week. Each household was ordered to produce five dead rats, hotels and schools ten each in an intensive two-week campaign. Failure to reach the quota will be penalized by a fine of $10 Chinese (5¼? U.S.) for each missing rat; $5 bounties will be paid for extra rats. According to popular report, the campaign was limited to two weeks because a longer period would permit the enterprising to breed rats, collect exorbitant bounties...
...last five months Chennault's pilots have destroyed 300-400 planes with a loss of eight pilots, fewer than 20 planes. China's debt to him and his American Volunteer Group is that, with the help of China's army, they saved Chungking, later saved Yunnan Province from the Japs...
...Kunming, at the top of the Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...
...mystery. Latest reliable reports put Japanese concentrations in Burma at some 90,000 troops. In Indo-China, Jap troops were recently reported landing at Haiphong on the coast and streaming ashore from barges at Hanoi on the Red River. Troop trains had been seen moving north-toward the Yunnan border. Chungking declared that Japan, with the cooperation of Vichyfrench Governor General Rear Admiral Jean Decoux, was conscripting an army of 150,000 native Indo- Chinese. Estimates of Japanese air forces in Burma, Indo-China and Siam: between 700 and 800 planes...