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...China's "second front." All along the lost coast the silent men, the guerrillas, men who plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...
...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...
...lines of communications were uncertain. The railroads often did not run because the railway personnel ran away or was intimidated by Burmese. Our radio communication between echelons was poor...
Name of the Florida East Coast Railway's new Jacksonville-to-Miami passenger train: Tiresaver...
Belgian rebels were credited with causing 125 railway accidents during the past month...