[marsyao]

sure, oldpilot, according to Chinese source, Germany stopped her military supply to China in May 1938, there were some secrect delivery after that, but not in any large scale, Germans certainly did not want to upset Japanese because of Chinese ! Because of combat losses,lack of spare parts for aicraft, and the difficulty of maintianance for ridicously so many different type of aircrafts. CAF almost ran out of combat aicrafts at the end of 1937, now the traditional source of Weapon, Germany and Italy, were stopping their aid, America had not transfered her industry to war time system, British and French had their hands full at Europe, the only help had to come from Soviet, that was a rather bizare relationship, because Soviet supported Chinese Communist in the civil war, the relationship between Russian and Chinese Central goverment was not good, but at that time, Soviet faced Nazi Germany at west, and Japanese at East, they faced a real possibility to fight a two-front war,Russian obviously considered that a Japanes fought in China was a Japanese could not give them trouble to them, so that the help they gave to Chinese at that time was very generous, a 250 million US dollars loan (some other source said 500 Million US dollars loan) in low interest, talking about aircrafts, between end of 1937 to October 1941, Soviet supplied Chinese 900+ aircrafts with large amount of engine, parts,bomber and all kind of areo-ammunition, the first patch of Soviet war planed arrived in China and fought at battle of NanJing in Dec 1937. For further detail, I need go home and check my book