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...that Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers. In most urgent terms U. S. Ambassador Nelson...
Driving southward behind the heaviest prolonged artillery and air bombardment put down in Spain's two-year-old civil war, Rightist forces of Generalissimo Franco, aiming for Valencia, last week burst and flattened a Leftist balloon-shaped salient of some 200 sq. mi. in their lines, advanced to within 34 miles north-west of their goal...
...Foreign Office and all civilian bureaus of the Chinese Government began withdrawing from Hankow last week, under orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that they must be established in Chungking, some 650 miles farther up the Yangtze River. Japan's drive up the Yangtze was still balked at Kiukiang, 135 miles below Hankow, by desperate Chinese resistance amid a scorching heat wave which sent thermometers...
...Hankow, attired in a new uniform of pale lavender, Generalissimo Chiang urbanely gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China...
...outset of the Japanese invasion of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek saw that he had millions of men who might line up the sights of a rifle but only thousands who could read a newspaper. Realizing that China would be in graver need of bright men after than brave men during the war, he requested students to stay in school and college. Consequently, in China's 13 U. S.-aided colleges,* enrollment remained within 1,800 of normal capacity. In the U. S. last week, the National Emergency Committee for Christian Colleges in China announced that an emergency fund...