Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Hankow, to which Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went from Nanking, the Chinese authorities permitted United Press's Jack Belden to send a dispatch with this lead: "The Chinese Communist Party, already dominant in the coalition which forms the present Central Chinese Government, tonight extended its control to three more of the nation's defense areas." Mr. Belden went on to record "a general tendency which would give officials of the former Chinese Soviet Government . . . domination of almost the entire conduct of the struggle'' of China v. Japan. This was saying...
...almost" factor was provided by negotiations in Hankow last week between Generalissimo Chiang and the German Ambassador Dr. Oskar P. Trautmann. acting for Japan. News of these talks, although every effort had been made by Trautmann to keep them secret, was broken by dispatches from Hankow routed to the outside world via Moscow. What were said to be the "mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo...
Seen today, now that all this is known, the conquering advance of General Chiang -first 600 miles from Canton inland to Hankow ("The Chicago of China"); then 600 miles down the Yangtze River to Shanghai ("The New York of China") and Nanking-was not primarily a great feat of arms. General Chiang had not yet developed many of his great qualities. He was almost an out-&-out puppet of the Soviet Union, but, as both Japan and Russia have found to their cost, no Chinese ever fully sells himself or China...
...China's late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, nephew by marriage to the Man & Wife of the Year (see p. 12), became last week the first prominent Chinese Government official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME...
...shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when he was "kidnapped" last year (TIME...