Since the fall of Hankow and Canton last October, fighting in China has remained desultory. Best reason for this has been that the Japanese military could not decide whether to pursue Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Communist allies into the ragged highlands of southwestern and northwestern China (which foreign observers estimate would require another 500,000 men) or to spread out beyond the roads and rivers and really take over the territory the army has only penetrated.
Last week New York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend offered another and more sensational reason why there has not been more fighting. From Shanghai, Correspondent Abend cabled...
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