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SHANGHAI, Thursday--A spokesman for the Chinese War Office in Hankow today said that divisions of Chinese regular army and scores of guerrilla bands were attacking the Japanese at more than a dozen points along an irregular line of about 1,000 miles from Hang-chow, capital of Chekiang Province, through Anhwei, Shantung, Shansi and Hopei Provinces. He said that 15,000 Japanese soldiers have been killed in the fighting in South Shantung Province since May 1, and that 3,000 have been killed this week...
...more than 30,000 Chinese troops were massing around Soochow; that large numbers of Chinese snipers had been smuggled into Shanghai; that a Chinese incendiary plot to destroy the Japanese college at Nantao had been narrowly frustrated. Four new divisions of Chinese soldiers were reported to be proceeding from Chekiang to Shanghai. According to Japanese authorities, Chinese were transporting cement and barbed wire to Sungkiang for the construction of defense works...
Life came to President Chiang Kai-shek 41 years ago in the minute village of Fenghwa in Chekiang Province. After running away from being apprenticed to a merchant he managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried...
Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
Tensed like a tiger ready to spring, Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng waited throughout the week with 40,000 soldiers mobilized at his stronghold in Chekiang Province, on the seacoast between Peking and Canton...