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China's once potent Governor Han Fu-Chu of Shantung, who recently yielded his capital Tsinan to the Japanese, last week was exhorted to "Hold Tsining at any cost!" To Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (360 miles away at Hankow), who wired this advice, Governor Han wired back: "I could not hold Tsinan, so I do not believe I am able to hold Tsining...
...Hankow, now the headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, Chinese felt safe last week because many Soviet war planes flown by expert Soviet pilots had arrived to protect them. The Russian aces, large, square-headed fellows of the surly, close-mouthed type seen in Leftist Spain, kept rigidly to themselves, but Chinese never doubted they would go up and do battle at the first Japanese air attack...
This week Chiang, while remaining Generalissimo, resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law Dr. H. H. Kung, only recently returned from a European shopping tour for war supplies (TIME, Aug. 30). Premier Kung, a descendant of China's greatest sage Confucius (whose memorial tablet on the Classical Mountain Taishan was threatened by Japanese last week) is a Chinese conservative. However, his first act as Premier was to order freed from Chinese jails virtually all prisoners, and the majority of these happened to be Communists. Dispatches reported Chinese Communist leaders pressing Premier Kung and Generalissimo Chiang...
...Saturday night. At this point, exuberants in Salamanca were proclaiming a complete Rightist victory, publishing detailed descriptions of the relief of the garrison who had doggedly fought for their lives in the Cathedral, the Seminary and the Civil Government Building. Actually the Rightist wave broke at the city gates. Generalissimo Franco, following Leftist tactics in reverse, sent another column cross-country to retake Campillo and Villastar. Thus at week's end the battle moved into its second phase. The snow stopped, hundreds of stranded trucks dug themselves out for the relief of both lines, and Benito Mussolini, taking...
Edgar Snow left Soviet China two months before Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped, three months before the Communists and the Generalissimo began their elaborate hatchet-burying in preparing to fight Japan. He prophesies flatly that the Communist-Kuomintang alliance "concludes an epoch of revolutionary warfare and begins a new era." Newspaper readers following the Japanese advance might conclude that the new era is to be one of Japanese dominance. Not so, says Edgar Snow. He quotes Mao's prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated...