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be mobile are in the rear; 2. The main body of decentralized industries is in the rear stretching in a huge arc around the entire fighting front and located in camouflaged farmhouses and in caves; 3. A zone of guerilla industry in the fighting areas and even behind Japanese lines. Many of these vest-pocket industries are so mobile that they can be moved on short notice, and they shift with the changing theater of war.
[[cross out]]If the conquest of China succeeded, the totalitarian New Order is East Asia would be virtually assured. While China resists, the richest and largest Far Eastern nation lies outside of the grasp of guns and greed, and the southward march of predatory armies is temporarily retarded.
China, the nation, will continue to fight. Of that we are all convinced. 
But what of the people of China? How long can the majority of the Chinese people endure? It is one thing to have an invincible spirit. It is quite another to be able to resist not only bombs, but the creeping inroads of infection, wounds, and of stark hunger. The people of China need [[strike through]]American[[/strike through]]your help now. They need it quickly, before it is too late. They need it desperately.[[/cross out]]
[[left margin]]*[[/left margin]] Health conditions of both Chinese civilians and soldiers have already profited from the American-sent equipment of hospitals, and the establishment and equipment of nurses' and doctors' training schools: cholera, for instance, has almost completely disappeared, and scabies, which formerly afflicted 90 percent of the soldiers returning from the front, is very slight. Civilian graduates of the American-supported Emergency Medical Training Schools have been instructed in the operation of delousing stations, in purifying of water supply, in the treatment of malaria, [[strikethrough]]venereal disease [[\strikethrough]]and relapsing fever. [[strikethrough]] six [[/strikethrough]] first-aid stations to care primarily for air-raid victims are now functioning in much-bombed Chinese cities.