Lanchow, capital of Kansu, has assumed a commanding position in the Chinese scheme for the defence of north-western China, a survey by Japanese military experts here revealed today.
Located on the banks of the Yellow River, this city has become the pivotal point of land and air routes linking China to: the Soviets, through which war material is streaming daily., The only other route for the transportation of arms and ammunition left available for the Chiang Kai-shek regime is that from Haiphong in French Indo-China. to Kunming in Yunnan.
From Lanchow; radiate highways linking this remote provincial capital to Chengchow, through Sian, in the east, to Tibet in the west, and to Szechuen in the south.
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