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According to Chinese estimates, about four divisions of Japanese regulars landed at various points along the coast of Chekiang and Fukien Provinces south of Shanghai, and were driving inland, practically unresisted. They would probably not drive far, for the landings had three restricted purposes-all of which might have some bearing on other theaters of the World...
...misleading. For one thing, a large proportion of this tonnage is impounded by the Admiralty and requisitioned for military purposes: transport of troops, supply of the Mediterranean campaigns, armed merchant-cruising with convoys. Besides, much of the tonnage is unsuitable for the task of supplying Britain: some ships are inland water vessels, others were used before the war for the trans-Channel trade. Much of the tonnage of big passenger liners is not usable cargo space. And many ships have specific jobs they cannot leave in distant parts of the world. According to London estimates, all these factors reduce tonnage...
...summer. The threat was removed at the strategic moment by a British naval force which appeared off Berbera, British Somaliland's capital and main port, one midnight, and landed men and machines in two places near the town. By 9:30 a.m. they had taken it. They pushed inland at once, and by week's end had very nearly made contact with the inland column...
...Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road. Instead, machinery, materiel and munitions are landed from junks or freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...
...Lewis of Everett, Wash., Mrs. Wyman of Tacoma, and Mrs. Grimson of Seattle are all engaged hereabouts as masters of inland vessels. Mrs. Grimson is particularly noteworthy for her managership of freighting sternwheel steamers-the last of the once great Puget Sound fleet-after many years as skipper of same...