Foreign News: Scorched Earth Policy

Of China's 4,480,992 square miles, Japanese forces held: This week: 642,412 Week Ago: 639,272 Month Ago: 625,272 Year Ago: 500,000

Six Japanese planes with chattering ma-chine guns chased China's shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky...

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