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Last week the Chungking press reported clashes between Chinese Communist units and Government troops in three North China Provinces. Though the clashes probably foretold no civil war, they marked the fact that relations of Government and Communists were no better than they were during January of this year, when bitter...
Outward signs pointed to a move to the south. The press started a campaign designed to show that Great Britain, the U.S. and Chungking were plotting the "encirclement" of Japan. There were hints that Thailand, which had a mild domestic crisis last week, might need Japanese "protection." Pointing straight at...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's lanky, quiet-spoken Far Eastern Correspondent Archibald T. Steele sent out a tale of a visitor to No. 76 Jessfield Road, Shanghai. He had interviewed in Chungking one of the few Chinese alive to tell the story of a visit there.
"He handed me over to his Chinese muscle-men-picked for their great size and strength-and told me that I must confess that night. . . . The strong-arm men removed me to the torture room, and the inquisition-which was to last all night-began. First I was beaten repeatedly...
There has been plenty to read about China and Chiang Kai-shek in the past. But much of it has come via leftist pipelines. Typical are books like Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (TIME, Jan. 10, 1938) ; Agnes Smedley's China's Red Army Marches...