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Important Asiatic collections received were 22,000 specimens from Indo-China, 4,500 from Yunnan, 2,000 from western China sent by the Lu-Shan Botanical Garden, 2,500 specimens from Szechuan, China, sent by Nanking University, and 12,000 specimens from Fiji. The Arboretum distributed 42,445 specimens. Many thousands of specimens for shipment to Europe were held...
Last week ten Japanese bombers came winging their carefree way up into Yunnan, heading directly for Kunming, the terminus of the Burma Road. Thirty miles south of Kunming, the Flying Tigers swooped, let the Japanese have it. Of the ten bombers, said Chungking reports, four plummeted to earth in flames. The rest turned tail and fled. Tiger casualties : none...
...hills were his only terrain advantages. General Hsueh studied the map, pondered. He had let the Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government divisions then. Now some of those troops had been transferred to Yunnan, 800 miles away, to stand guard against the Japanese in French Indo-China. In their place were Szechwanese provincial troops who might blow up in a pinch...
...service on the far-famed Burma Road; more were coming. Three complete repair and maintenance shops were being assembled for the rusty, work-worn trucks of China's highway system. Road-building equipment was en route. So were medical supplies. Steel for the construction of a new Yunnan-Burma railway was promised. Most important news of all to China's powder-grimed riflemen: ordnance and arsenal equipment was being given them...
These counsels were reflected in the field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that...