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With troops to spare after the collapse of the Philippines and Burma, the Jap shot them into the China front in a score of places. His steel noose encircled China from Hankow on the north through Hong Kong on the coast to Myitkyina on the Burma frontier. On the southwest (Burma) side he felt his way up the severed Burma Road, slithered up the valleys out of Siam and Indo-China. He met desperate resistance by Chinese troops, who stopped him time after time, only to find he had popped up somewhere else...
...charged with terrifying speed into the flank of her ragged fighters, defying analysis of his advance by the dazzling multiplicity of his spearheads. The Jap flung his main force in a curiously variegated pattern. Above Lashio, some 100 miles, he branched into two forks, sent one column north to Myitkyina, where he established an air base. Another column swung northeast up the Burma Road...
...this terrific Jap pressure, plus food and water scarcity and the noncompletion of roads to India, that makes the task so difficult. The railway line leading to a dead end at Myitkyina has been repeatedly smashed by Jap bombers, interrupted by Burmese saboteurs loosening rails, opening switches and shooting at wrecking crews in the dark. Small, tough jeeps may be able to negotiate the oxcart tracks and are being commandeered to carry out the wounded, but the majority must walk. Whether they escape depends upon whether Alexander and Stilwell can block off roads to stem the Jap advance, and whether...
...been set up, next projected step is in air-transport system, which ought to be far more efficient and far speedier than uncertain Chinese gasoline, mule-and coolie-propelled transport. Chinese in Washington are desperately trying to obtain priorities for 24 U.S. transport planes, which will operate from Myitkyina, Burma, the railhead north of Mandalay, to a point two-thirds of the way up the Burma Road...
...discoverer of Pekin Man, Pere Teilhard de Chardin, will join the expedition in Burma on December 1. With him two field trips will be made into the north above Myitkyina, which lies at the foot of the Chinese Alps, near the desolate wastes of Tibet...