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...Wife of 1937, Chinese Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-shek went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
...That under Generalissimo Chiang's personal leadership crumpling Chinese resistance in Shantung rallied, that the city of Tsining, captured fortnight ago by the Japanese was several times recaptured by both sides with the Chinese finally claiming 250 square miles...
...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...
...That the Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
Little explanation was needed. Obviously Dictator Stalin did not mean to let his pilots fight until Generalissimo Chiang gave Communists greater authority in the Chinese Government...