Fairbank--

been carrying on in north China? The prospects for Chinese resistance depend to no small degree on the answer, but we have very few first hand accounts of what is going on in Hunan, the probable scene of the next fighting."

Another factor, be feels, "is the extent to which it has been possible to set up a real industrial base in Szochuan, sufficient to supply some sort of army in the field. This is naturally linked with other unanswered items such as the condition of the land supply routes from Western China to Russia and to Burma."