In the 12 months that have elapsed singe the fall of Hankow, the Chinese have carried out a systematic cam-paige of highway destruction, emphasizing this type of defence in mountainous areas, The Japanese, as result, many times find themselves on an equal footing as far as fighting equipment Is concerned because of inability" "transport heavy" equlp-
This correspondent, on a recent tour of the Changsha front, saw highways, constructed centuries ago and rehabilitated by successive Chi nose Governments, completely de. troyed. In some areas rice paddies were growing where trucks formerly careered over the rough spots. In places. where it was impossible to destroy the highway completely, great chasms had been glug, thirty and forty feet deep. Some were fied with two or three feet of water. Hign hills, or muddy rice elds, prevented heavy trafic from moving on the side of the road, All of this had been carried out in a mountainous area where the only means of transport was over these roads or on narrow two-foot wide paths, South of Changsha, as far as Hengyang, gateway to the' great south-west, similar defences were being constructed,
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