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...Nanking last week the Chinese Government, reorganized with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as Premier, were in daily diplomatic, negotiation with the Japanese Government, trying to save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
...Japanese occupation spread unopposed, like a ripple slowly widening out toward Peiping and Tientsin, consternation reigned in Nanking, capital of the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and Premier Wang Ching-wei who was recently winged by a would-be Chinese assassin (TIME, Nov. 11). Mr. Wang, hospitalized at Shanghai, had recovered sufficiently to set out for Nanking. On the way a plot to assassinate him was discovered. He abruptly resigned last week as Premier, hoping that Chinese patriots who have called him "pro-Japanese" will now let him alone...
...North China the pretext of a "spontaneous Chinese movement for autonomy" was set up fortnight ago when 25 counties were proclaimed an Autonomous Government by one Mr. Yin Ju-keng, a Chinese with a prominent Japanese brother-in-law. Orders to arrest Mr. Yin were telegraphed by Generalissimo Chiang last week to General Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei Province. Unable to arrest Mr. Yin, General Shang announced that he blamed himself entirely for everything and in deepest shame would resign "because of illness contracted from stove- gas in my residence." Not to be put off with stove-gas, Generalissimo Chiang...
Since General Doihara and his Japanese Army crowd had openly threatened to hurl in their troops at any such "Chinese provocation" and since they did not hurl them last week, Chinese enjoyed briefly a feeling of exhilaration. Then Ambassador Ariyoshi bustled around, hinting to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that the discomfited Japanese Army clique is so powerful that Japan's civilian Cabinet members have to be careful. After much haggling the Ambassador emerged to whisper to Japanese correspondents that Generalissimo Chiang, while opposing secession of the five provinces in the strongest terms, had promised a "compromise...
Japan's army clique came back by saying, in effect, that Generalissimo Chiang's bond is as bad as his word and rattled its accoutrement along the Great Wall. At that civilian Japanese leaders said Japan's troops had been instructed by the "highest authority" (the Son of Heaven) not to move into China without an Imperial Order-something august and rarely given. In Tokyo suppressed excitement grew so thick that Japanese would not have been surprised had civilian Foreign Minister Koki Hirota or War Minister General Yoshiyuki Kawashima been assassinated last week. Japan...