Hiding by day, riding by night, the Japanese last week ground out new and ominous gains in their China offensivethe greatest land campaign ever fought by the men from the little island empire. Although the nearest battlefield was almost 350 miles from Chungking, the atmosphere in the capital was heavy with disaster. The Jap drive was a new and terrible threat to the very heart of Free China, the stronghold area lying in a quadrilateral between Chengtu, Chungking, Kweiyang and Kunming.
The enemy was not attempting a Blitzkrieg. Rather his strangling assault was a slow, ponderous, Montgomeryesque offensive which wound...
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