Last Line

With big fuses sputtering among Europe's political high explosives, China's War has recently looked like a chain of twopenny firecrackers. But if a possible European blow-up involved Russia, what Japan was doing in the Far East would become vitally important. For some time there has been a lull in hostilities during which Japan was reported moving large numbers of troops to Manchukuo--on hand for anti-Russian duty. Last week Japan ended the lull and made it clear that while its right hand remained clenched against Russia, its left was going right on lighting firecrackers against China.

Pop! went one campaign into Chekiang Province, right at Shanghai's unconquered back door. Pop! went another into Kiangsi. Objective of the new drive was Nanchang, capital of Kiangsi. A city of 500,000, Nanchang is a key point on the Chekiang-Hunan railway, China's last line of supply from the east coast. In two days, according to Japanese reports, 1,100 Chinese lay dead and 6,500 were captured. In seven days the offensive banged its way into Nanchang.

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