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...weeks during the spring and early summer Japanese armies had pushed along the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway. Their two great objectives had been: 1) a safe supply line by land all the way from Shanghai to their Indo-China bases; 2) destruction of air bases from which U.S. planes could bomb Tokyo. They were near to success when, instead of delivering the last killing blow, they faltered. Last week came reports of their slow withdrawal before desperate Chinese resistance...
Chinese had wrested back 135 miles of the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway, after a two weeks' siege occupied Linchwan. The Japanese burned and destroyed as they slowly retreated, as though they never expected to be back in that country...
...prepared to deal with rioting. The Raj even hoped that prompt action would break the back of the Congress party once & for all. Optimistically, Government officials announced that resistance was virtually under control. Immediately new riots broke out in Madras, where four men were killed trying to attack a railway station. Ahmadabad mills closed. A Karaikkudi mob tried to free an Indian being jailed. Calcutta brooded restlessly, heard threats of work stoppages at vital war plants. Poona, Nagpur, Cawnpore, Wardha reported fresh riots. An airplane dropped tear gas on a crowd of Bombay mill workers. The New Delhi Town Hall...
...Never resting, within one short day Chennault's men flew to the port of Canton (see col. 1), where the Jap had entrenched himself along the Pearl River; attacked the Japanese base at Hankow; pounded Jap-held points at Nanchang, Sienning and Yochow on the Canton-Hankow railway...
...short. Nowhere were there signs of disintegration of the Red Army, of any flagging in the Russian will to fight; of confusion, despair and flight such as heralded the fall of France. As long as the Red Army held together, as long as the mighty Volga and its parallel railway on the east remained in Soviet hands, the Battle of Russia was not lost...