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After Five Years. They read other news which seemed good: about how the Japanese, near the end of five years of war, had been forced to start a battle in Shantung Province, far in the north, near where the whole war had begun; about how they had bombed the Lunghai Railway, which the Japanese had tried to break almost as many times as the line has ties; and of course about how the American friends had beaten part of the Japanese Fleet. They spat when they read that the traitor Wang Ching-wei had gone to Manchukuo, where the Japanese were said to be concentrating troops against the Russians.
Perhaps the readers were hasty with their grins. But they could not help feeling that this May was different. After all, this May the Japanese planes had not once crawled like silver lice across Chungkings coolie-cloth sky.