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Deposed Dragon. First he moved against China's strong war lord, one-eyed General Lung Yun, the rascally "old dragon" of Yunnan. By gun and guile, Lung had ruled that strategic southwestern province of China since 1927. His capital, Kunming, was the biggest U.S. air base in the country, and during the war he had played host to many a U.S. officer and touring bigwig. Last week Chiang deposed the "old dragon" of Yunnan, completing a political conquest of the vast western hinterland...
...years ago, when Chiang Kai-shek retreated into western China rather than come to terms with the Japanese, he was forced into an area barely under his control and hardly touched by the national revolution. The two principal provinces of west China are Szechwan (pop.: 60 million) and Yunnan (pop.: 11 million). Both were dominated by old-style war lords. In 1941 Chiang ousted the war lord of Szechwan, appointing an honest and progressive governor...
...Japanese were all but washed up. There was no continuous front-there could be none across the forbidding north-south ridges. But between the ridges, four Allied armies were probing southward like the fingers of a hand; another, like an opposed thumb, was flexing southwestward from China's Yunnan Province. The enemy was fighting only rearguard actions. Obviously he was falling back upon his supply bases in central Burma...
Apparently Americans would also continue to train Chinese troops for the coming battles. In Yunnan province thousands of Chinese have already passed through bases like "Little Fort Benning," grown husky and active on good food, learned modern communications and tactics from U.S. instructors...
...reinforcements were steadily moving up the Yangtze River, reports from Hunan that a brigade of 200 light tanks was ready to go into action soon. The Chinese might be able to muster a slightly larger number of men-but incomparably less equipment. And the nearest Chinese reinforcements were in Yunnan, about 30 days' march distant...