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Along the famed road from Burma the Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...
Japanese troops continued to pour into Indo-China. It was said that a force of at least 100,000 was ready to strike at the Burma Road in either direction: north westward through Yünnan Province, westward through Thailand and Burma...
...attack on Yünnan would immediately run into a formidable barrier of mountains and malaria. It would run into a "Chinese" Air Force of about 200 American P-40 fighters manned by pilots on leave from the U.S. Army Air Forces and about to start service under the Chinese flag. And an attack on Yünnan would run into the determined South China Forces which lack mechanization but greatly outnumber the Japanese...
...French Indo-China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek concentrated 120,000 local Chinese troops on his southern border with an additional 80,000 from his Chungking Army to form a rear guard. His sappers dynamited the 450-foot railway bridge spanning the Red River on the Indo-China-Yünnan border at Lao-Kay and Chinese labor crews began to take up the track of the Chinese portion of the French-owned railway for use elsewhere in China. One hundred and twenty small and large Japanese warships moved into the Gulf of Tonkin and dropped anchor...
Aware that the invasion of Yünnan Province through Indo-China would put a serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...