Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SHANGHAI (Friday)--Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek announced in his provisional capital at Hankow today that he will continue fighting Japan as long as a single Chinese remains to assist him. The Generalissimo called on the Chinese people to maintain their morale and assured them that victory eventually will be theirs...
...Cabinet that Japan halt her offensive and limit the campaign to the occupation of the "conquered" territory. On the other hand, the Cabinet's military ' "extremists" insist that Japan push on to the final goal, i. e., control of all of China and the fall of Chiang Kaishek...
...Reported last week in Hankow was the success of Japanese efforts to have Germany, as Japan's anti-Communist ally, order the recall of General Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen and his staff of 40 German military men who have long been "personal" advisers to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...warplanes and a landing party of 1,000 sailors and marines planted the Rising Sun flag on the important, poorly defended island of Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing for a push in South China to cut off Chiang Kai-shek's munitions route, most observers believed that Japan wanted an easy victory to announce at home and that the restless, jealous Japanese Navy wanted a little glory for itself...
...Japanese claimed that the successful closing of the Lunghai corridor's western end would mean that an army of at least 400,000 of Chiang Kai-shek's best soldiers would be bottled up in a narrowing pocket around Suchow, with little chance of escape, with only the alternatives of surrender or annihilation. Since this corridor is at least 100 miles long and never narrower than 45 miles, the Japanese claim was considered optimistic. The effective closing of the long western end of the Lunghai corridor seemed to military experts to be feasible only if Japan sent many...