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Lowell Mellett, 54, is a coiner nowadays in the Administration's inner circle. Brother of the late crusading Editor Don Mellett of the Canton, Ohio News, he, too, is a newspaperman of wide experience. This year Franklin Roosevelt signed him on. Fellow newspapermen see him as a candidate being groomed to succeed wily old Charles Michelson, 69. Democratic national pressagent...
...nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat of their Government...
Britain and France, meanwhile, joined in warning Japan to stay off Hainan Island, which Japan might use as a base for an offensive against Canton and South China. Hainan is a Chinese island which lies close to the coast of French Indo-China and uncomfortably close to Britain's strategic sea route between her colonies of Singapore and Hong Kong...
Married. Rosemary Webster, 21, debutante daughter of Manhattan Surgeon David H. Webster; to Paul Gilson, 23, handsome but penniless Canton (N. Y.) poorhouse accountant; in Rochester, N. Y. Unable to stop the marriage. Father Webster proceeded to disinherit Daughter Rosemary "for the time being...
From Hankow last week came disturbing reports of dissension between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his military aides. Chief dissenter was General Li Tsung-jen, powerful military leader of Kwangsi, a South China province neighboring Canton, who patched up his long-standing quarrel with the Generalissimo when hostilities started eleven months ago. In the tortuous back-stepping before the Japanese the Generalissimo has repeatedly pulled his own crack German-trained divisions from the front lines first, leaving the raw, ill-equipped mass of his army, largely composed of provincial troops, to cover the retreat. This, coupled with Chiang...