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China was paralyzed by lack of fuel. All trucks rolling into Kweiyang, the main transport center in southwest China, were ordered to stop moving until converted to charcoal burning. Since charcoal burners are scarce in China, this meant that only a few military and Government trucks got quick conversion...
...Manhattan Businessman Alfred Kohlberg, director of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, flatly contradicted Leland Stowe's third point. Mr. Kohlberg made a trip to China last summer, checked on arrivals of medical aid at Red Cross headquarters at Kweiyang. "At the time I was there," said he last week, "everything had arrived intact and checked to the dot with the detailed lists forwarded from New York...
...with the British Royal Army Medical Corps, left his laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical College, formerly known as Yale-in-China...
...populous, prosperous Hankow will not mean the end of the war for China. Already unimportant Government bureaus have been moved upriver to Chungking and at Hankow the Foreign, Finance and Industry Ministries are poised to precede Chiang Kai-shek's military headquarters to the interior city of Kweiyang, slated as the next Chinese de facto capital...
...Hankow last week, nervous Government officials, believing the city's fall a matter of weeks, packed their families off to remote cities in southwestern China, started shipping Government archives and nonessential equipment to Chungking, officially the seat of the Government. Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier...