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Almost on the eve of the monsoon the Chinese struck from the Salween. In Yunnan 20,000 picked troops and the Americans of Stilwell's Y (for Yunnan) force lunged from the Burma Road westward against Japanese lines. Their drive met strong Japanese resistance, was still 80 airline miles from Myitkyina...
...Chung is a Chinese refugee university. Driven from Wuchang to Kweilin by Japanese bombers, it now carries on deep in the hills of southern Yunnan Prov ince. From that inflation-blighted remote ness, a Chinese-American couple recently sent the U.S. an eye-opening report. It appears in the current Atlantic Monthly...
...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...