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Show V SAGE 10SSJSSS;- DAILY HERALD - . it lC447n Most Crucial for China. j utStp Sstbstlts Hevlvlng Hopes v . umri'fiow: inu is w J first of three dispatches de- scribing the conditloni in, China at start of IMS and the eighth year of war for '4 tChiwu) J r GEORGE WANG ' Vaiied Areas Staff Correspondent i CHUNGKING 0U9 China Coring 1814 had her darkest period In eight years of war, but '-4xpecta decisive battles to be fought on her soil daring 1843. 5 In- the past year China lost ' three more provinces, 1,600 air - xniles of communication lines, : eizht malor , air bases formerly used by Americans and her wartime capital of Chungking. nd Kunming, eeat of the 14th U. S. Air Force headquarters were once seriously endangered. laps Control Corridor 2 From the enemy's point of "flew. Chine was completely bisected. bi-sected. A' land corridor was cut across China linking up Tokyo " ' with Singapore? by Korea China, Ipdo-Chlna and Thailand. J -I.The Japanes have been boast- Ing they "poshed the American tack to -the west China mountains mount-ains so that the threat of bombing bomb-ing Tokyo has been removed fnce and for alL" Almost on eve t this announcement, however, H-29 Super foi treses from the gjftarlanas blasted craters and started fires in Hirohito's capital. ! The major and best portion of wheat-producing Honan province in North China, the "Rice Bowl" crovince of Hunan in central Chfwf, and the strategic mountainous moun-tainous tHovince of Kwancsl in South China have been lost to the Japanese in 1944. i TJ. 8. Air Base '1 Eight former. American sir bases in south China Llngllng, ffengyang, Siangtan. Paochlng. in Hunan province; Kweilin, Liu-chow, Liu-chow, Nannlng and Tanchuk in iCwangsi province, were lost dur- tg that time. The most critical situation came worked their heads off to evac uate from these doomed fields whatever equipment was left and worth taxing away. opumism on mse It was at this time Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek told his cabinet ministers "the war sit uation is extremely difficult,' while the commanding officer of I American forces in the China theater, MaJ. Gen. A. C Wede-meyer, Wede-meyer, echoed, "The situation continues unfavorable to us. This Is only the dark side of I the whole picture of the China front. There is a rising uae oi optimism op-timism now, based chiefly on American successes in the Pacific but also on successes of the Chinese Chi-nese in driving the enemy from Kweichow province and in almost opening up the Burma Road. MacArihur's Lctading Episode Finally Rovoalod m WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 OJJD The war department, in a "mem orandum to the press," today told of the embarrassment of a group of crewmen from a navy attack cargo ship who served as a shore party directing unloading operations opera-tions at a Leyte beachhead. A signalman whose Job was to keep the sector clear of other craft saw a small landing craft approaching. "Get that boat out of here," he shouted. The ship continued toward the beach. It struck bottom 15 yards from the shoreline. An army lieutenant's head appeared over the lamp. "Sena a 'duck' out to pick us up," he called. The assistant beachmaster shouted back in a truculent tone: "Walk In. The water's fine." The landing craft's ramp drop- r ri v Trl jott.ii.Ul - v. 'Am. Jap Best - tf-N4 1 LUZONg? f iifi Philippine III I DIC. 20 I ill v j ui4o.t i I 1 V'fpwweiaMMewHi I 1 fNfsJ Hirohf to Shows Gracious Concern By UNITED FBXSS Today's sociological note from the far east as reported by radio Tokyo end recorded by United Press In San Francisco: "His imperial majesty the Emperor Em-peror showed gracious concerns over the populace by . hearing about their living conditions from the chairmen of the local administrative admin-istrative councils on Tuesday. "Four chairmen from the Kok-kaido Kok-kaido and three other districts were granted audiences Tuesday in the imperial palace and humbly hum-bly submitted detailed reports for the Imperial knowledge." BOYCOTT SIGNED AGAINST JAPS "Auburn, calif., Jan. 17 cu.ro Approximately 300 residents of Placer county, led by the commander com-mander of a local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, last night signed a petition agreeing to boycott returning Japanese-Americans Japanese-Americans and "persons who do business with the Japanese." Eden Sidesteps Laborite Demand LONDON, Jan, 17 CUJ0 Labor-ites Labor-ites tried vainly in commons today to-day to force a pledge from Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that British forces would not be used to destroy leftist ELAS forces In Greece in support of the Plastiras government. Eden sidestepped the question and asked the house to await Prime Minister Churchill's speech on the Greek situation tomorrow.. (CAK3CYCCLCS notoracUaonTr tpells but also loosens sticky maa young even small children. (Adv- November darkest period of Pd- The first man to Jump into Map above charts the step-by-step progress of the American air, land and sea campaign in the Philippines which, starting with the seizure of Leyte Island, was brought to a smashing climax by -the Invasion of Luzon. the war when China appeared all but knocked out. Residents of Chungking were seriously considering consid-ering evacuating the capital, but to where no one knew. They evaculated Nanking and other Coastal towns eight years ago, and now there is nowhere left the waist-deep surf was General Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied Al-lied commander in the southwest Pacific. The embarrassed beach party was put at ease when the general waded up and, with a beaming smile, greeted with: "Good morn- For three months ending In! tog. How are things going?" November, engineers of the I4tn Air Force have been forced to destroy endangered airfields built and equipped with hundreds of millions of American money. 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Rumors have cropped up from time to time that the nation's most famous canine was being mated, but heretofore here-tofore the reports have met only denials. Japs' Fantastic Suicide Plan to Sink Ships, Fails ABOARD ADMIRAL KIN- KAID'S FLAGSHIP OFF PHILIPPINES, Jan. 17 (U.R) A fantastic Japanese plan to destroy the American invasion ships in Lingayen gulf by hurling at them a fleet of "suicide boats" can be revealed today The .plan flopped because the Japanese failed to exploit their weapon to the maximum advant age and because the American troops advanced so fast that the "suicide base" became untenable. The Japanese made a feeble effort ef-fort to sink our ships on the night of the landing on the Lingayen gulf coast, but caused only slight damage and did not repeat the attack. I accompanied a IT. S. Seventh fleet party that discovered the hideout of the Japanese suicide boats yesterday. An LCI took us into Sual Bay on the west side of the gulf, where the boats had SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 17 been abandoned. (U.R Another manpower saver The hideout was Just north of a "mechanical brain" for a rivet- the town of Sual in a coconut ing machine has been invented grove that made it difficult to by a Consolldated-Vultee Aircraft I spot from the air. Corp. employe, the company revealed re-vealed today. - I Walter Mandel, the inventor,! said the "brain" would "tell" the riveting machine where to punch I holes, how to insert rivets and ! when to form "driving heads," thus performing much of the work involved in riveting certain types of airplane sub-assemblies. 1 Manpower Saving Machine In Use Poor Digestion? 5 Headachy? Sour or Upset ? a a Tired-Listless? FORMER SOLDIER CONVICTED OF MURDER SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17 (U.R) Luther Coffman, 28, a former soldier, was sentenced to life imprison im-prison mcnt in San Quentin today for the slaying of Pvt. James B. 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