intention to attack points in Japan Proper, but does reveal that following the Japanese example the Chinese air force, re-organized and e-equipped with new machines and personnel, is, stretching out to more distant points. Widespread operations are now envisaged making Japan's combative plans more dificult, and although Shanghai may be adequately protected as the principal Japnese base in the Yangtze Valley yet it would be foolish to ignore pos sibilities. The days and weeks which once were used as the yardstick in the Far East only a few years ago are reduced to fractions of hours by aeroplanes, say with a speed of 180-200 miles an hour, which is by no means high. A map illustrating this point will be found on another page.
In the spring the young man's fancy tightly: turns to thoughts of love, or a new suit, or car, of some other frivolity. Along the Tibetan border, it takes a different form. There the young braves polish up their rifles and spears and inaugurate the robbery season which causes much annoyance to traders and travellers along. the caravan routes, and sometimes offends the local officials but Very rarely judging by the indifference which these officials show, This is merely a prelude to on important discovery made among the large batch of letters received from the widely distributed correspondents. of this journal the other day, Yen Chin, Hsikang, province, Tibet, produced the only letter in Wwhich not a single reference to the Sino-Japanese hostilities was made, and up and down, ithe Tibetan borderland the only topic of infor= motion was the robber activities resulting in the closure of sume of the caravan routes. Of course, it should not be presumed that one shadows the other for it is as serious check at a. war duration should "check national
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