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Back last week from the safety of British Hong Kong to often-bombed Hankow sped Chinese Premier Dr. H. H. Kung. There he met Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek whom Chinese newspapers had reported personally leading 400,000 troops against the Japanese in North China. Generalissimo Chiang and his German military adviser, General (retired) Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen, chatted optimistically with correspondents, while they watched several newly arrived Soviet battle planes take the air against Japanese bombers...
...increase China's food supplies and also curtail the production of opium, Generalissimo Chiang last week directed the governors of five provinces to convert poppy fields into farm lands...
Chinese newspapers said the Generalissimo was in personal command of 400,000 troops defending his "Hindenburg Line" near Suchow (TIME, Feb. 14). In this sector the Japanese advance launched fortnight ago was proceeding cautiously last week, Japanese artillery blasting the way for Japanese troops. The Chinese, although greatly outnumbering the Japanese, appeared decisively inferior in artillery and aviation...
...last week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan are through...
...Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek apparently does not expect to defeat the Japanese forces by direct attacks but hopes that (1 they will soon conquer all the land they want and then cease righting, 2 other foreign nations will step in to check the invasion, 3 the League of Nations will be sufficiently effective in taking action that will force Japan to withdraw, 4 the United States will come to his aid because of the sinking of the Panay, 5 in time Japan will defeat herself through lack of resources...