"After repeatedly large numbers of war planes, th Japanese have still) failed to realize that, they: can bomb. Chungking for years without much effect, The city has the finest passive air defences inthe world. Dugouts are built ín solid rock and capable of sustaining direct hits by the heaviest bombs, When incomes to bombing, the. Chinese can take it like the British, in different ways perhaps but with equal stoicism.
"Similarly. the bombing of the Burma Road may hamper but cannot stop the flow of supplies into 'Free China,' Travellers arriving here have come the whole way from Lashio by road without once being forced to usc the river ferries, After the destruction of the bridges over the Mekong River, the Chinese constructed a new suspension bridge in seven weeks, "Handicapped in some of their theatres of war through lack'of equipment, the Chinese are still largely unable to resist major Japanese attacks in the feld.—With the vast lumber of troops at their disposal, however, they can constantly form new concentrations in different pats of the country. which the Japanese are compelled to break up in order to remove threats to biggest cities in their hands. Japan is thus forced to expend her energy in taking towns which she has captured three or four times before,
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