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...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...
...based air forces, in their most destructive raid of the war, blasted Haiphong in Indo-China, destroying shipping and munition dumps. Chennault's tactics were brilliant. Lightning-like, he struck around the compass. R.A.F. and U.S. pilots from India attacked Jap airdromes in Thailand and Burma. And in Yunnan, China's southernmost province, the troops of General Chiang Kai-shek waited in the jungles...
...north. Reports came of new activity along the Siberian border. The Japs, they calculated, intended to turn their backs on China for a while to fight another war. The Chinese also looked to the south. The Japs, they calculated, intended to stab at China's soft underside through Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces...
Everlasting and Permanent. The Black Death reached the U.S. in another great eruption (1892-1902). It began around the primary plague focus in China's Yunnan (Burma Road) Province, spread to India and seaports all over the globe. Some 12,000,000 people died in India alone. In 1900 it reached San Francisco, probably via ship-borne rats from Honolulu. Within the next two years some 113 persons (mostly Chinese) are known to have died in San Francisco of plague...