Extending from Siaoshan, the oni remaining port on the Chientane River not occupied by the Japanese, to the region opposite Hangchow. the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway is the most active arms supply route of the Kuomingtang command. Arms and ammunition from abroad shipped to Siaoshan and raw materials for th biggest Chinese arsenals around Siangkiang in Hunan have been transported on the railway. Miner products of Hunan Province, parti cularly antimony and manganese have been sent over the railway from Siaoshan, where the Kuomintang rogime maintains a Customs office.
Guerillas harassing Japanese troop. and Japanese-occupied areas around Hangchow and near Nanking and Wuhu receive reinforcements and arms from Kiangsi and Hunan by means of the—Chekiang-Kiang: i Railway, which has been the most important supply channel since the Canton-Hankow Railway was controlled by the Japanese. Capture of Nanchang would end the military and economic importance of the railway, a severe blow to the Gen, Chiang Kai-shek regime and sever the suppl route of the Chinese near Hangchow Nanking and Wuhu. munist Party, declares that the Japanese drive against Nanchang aims at cutting the Chekiang-Kiangsi Railway, and thus disrupting communications between Kiangsi and Chekiang provinces, the interior of Chiba.
At the same time, the journal declares, the occupation of Nanchang by ihe uld pave the way for a campaign agai e Chinese guerillas now operating e Nanking, Wuhu and Shanghai areas, who would then be bottled The paper states that the occupation of Nanchang would mean that the Japanese forces would threaten Changsha, the capture of which, it declares, is part of the Japanese programme aiming at the complete occupation of the Canton-Hankow The journal predicts a ale offensive by the Chinese es in the Shanghai, Nanking and Wuhu areas, to exert pressure on the Japanese rear, and also to organize the Kiangsi populace for guerilla warfare.—Reuter.
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