The Yellow River

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Store. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea.

The drama of the people's whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here, as another public service, is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.

The Yellow River, barrier and battle line. The Chinese, as for thousands of years, prevailed against the sinister waters of the Yellow River. They are today prevailing against the Japanese.

The Chinese called the Yellow River Wang Ho and China's sorrow and the Dragon Carrier. The Huang Ho is one of the most ruthless killers of mankind. No one will ever know how many millions of us it has killed.

But as the Chinese have learned to die by it, they have learned to live with it. They have learned to use it as a devastating weapon against the Japanese, as we shall see. The Japanese are abandoning their strongholds in the great bend of the Yellow River, where they've been entrenched for seven years.

It is believed that the Japanese are affecting a general withdrawal to the Beijing Hangka Railroad and the third. Remember that Beijing Hangka Railroad. It runs roughly north and south. South, paralleling the southern course of the Yellow River.

And in military terms, this is important. The Hwang Ho rises in the hills of North Tibet and flows 2,500 miles to the sea. 2,500 miles. It may end as across North China, a muddy stream, worthless for steam navigation, and only seasonally worthwhile for small craft.