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Chinese troops followed up their capture of the Fourteenth Air Force base city of Liuchow (TIME, July 9) by closing in on four other onetime U.S. air bases-Paoking, Tanchuk, Kanhsien and "Kweilin. On the Indo-Chinese frontier, mountain troops extended their front to 160 miles. But at week's end Chungking reported one setback: Japanese marines had landed on the Chinese-held southeast coast, presumably to reinforce Amoy's depleted garrison...
...sudden spurt of activity, Chinese troops last week captured Weichow Island, off the South China coast, pierced French Indo-China on a 100-mile front and pushed to within 150 miles of Shanghai. But their biggest success was the recapture of the key city of Liuchow, onetime Fourteenth Air Force base. From that war front, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White radioed...
According to all sources here, the Japs used the route for local traffic only. Occasionally troops moved to Liuchow 100 miles north, or Indo-China 100 miles south. But the Fourteenth Air Force kept the roads useless. Frequently the Japs were forced to rely upon files of impressed Chinese coolies, hauling sacks of bullets to the Indo-China garrisons...
Change of Mind. At various Allied headquarters far from Nanning, analysts are now putting together bits of information about Jap plans for the future. Well before the evacuation of Nanning and the abandonment of the corridor, the Japs started continental redispositions. Two new divisions were recently sent to Indo-China, and divisions already there have been brought up to strength with Korean and Formosan replacements. The chewed-up Burmese divisions have been pulled back to Thailand...
...China, neglected elder theater of the war against Japan, that the enemy's decision was disclosed to the world. There, with revitalized Chinese armies pressing after them, Japanese forces retired from advanced positions in the all-important corridor linking Central China with Indo China - and points south. This was no mere local redisposition of troops : it meant that Japan had irrevocably written its Southeast Asia and South Seas empires off the books. Their sea lanes already cut by blockade, these areas were denied all hope of overland communications by the Jap withdrawal through Nanning...