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...Shanghai from Japan flew Quentin Roosevelt, 19, grandson of the late President, to take off for a one-man expedition into Yunnan Province. Sophomore Roosevelt, on leave of absence from Harvard, expects to find rare manuscripts, skulls, golden monkey furs, hopes his plunder will be considered research work, enabling him to graduate with his class...
Steps were taken recently to collect books for distribution in western China, as a committee has been formed for that purpose following a letter from Mr. T. L. Yuan, the director of the National Library of Peiping, now situated in Yunnan, describing the need of books...
...much of China's cultural and industrial life and millions of refugees from the devastated eastern Yangtze valley set out to a new "New China" in the hinterland which had been frantically prepared during 18 months of war. The new "New China" is composed of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Szechuan, Kangsu, Sikang, Tsinghai, and the Chinese Communist-held province of Shensi-places which two years ago seemed to most Chinese as remote as Alaska is to New Yorkers...
...French Foreign Office last week was reported to have quietly given in to persistent Japanese demands that the railway from French Indo-China into interior Yunnan Province be closed to war supplies for Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies. With only a trickle of traffic going over the long rail and motor route from British Burma, the Chinese are now almost wholly dependent on the Soviet Union for their foreign supplies. These are either flown in by Russian planes or trucked in over the Sian-AIma Ata highway, linking China with Soviet territory, or the Lanchow-Ulan Bator...
Certain that China's main air base at Nanchang, 400 miles north of Canton, will soon fall, a new air station has been set up in interior Yunnan Province, and there last week Chinese recruits, coached by adventurous U. S. fliers, were busy learning the controls of recently arrived Russian fighting planes...