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Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose whereabouts is usually a military secret, last week was revealed to have moved to a new headquarters in southern Hunan Province, midway between fallen Hankow and Canton. With British munitions and supplies cut off by Canton's fall and the possibility that French Premier Daladier will heed Japan's demand to close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck...
There was evidence of this fundamental shift of the sources of Chiang's supplies last week. Chiang's crack troops, withdrawn from Hankow in plenty of time, were armed with 100 new tanks and newly arrived Russian artillery...
...Shansi Province last week, almost 300 miles north of Hankow, Communist guerrillas, fighting far behind Japanese front lines, continued to slash communication lines, ambush food and reinforcement convoys. From Hankow Japanese forces fanned out in a wide circle 200 miles in circumference, feeling for stray Chinese bands...
Japanese statesmen tend to become highly intoxicated on moderate victories. Last week the fall of Canton and Hankow acted on Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and the Japanese Foreign Office like a triple round of old-fashioneds at a meeting of a Browning Club. It is no new thing for Japanese jingoes outside the Cabinet to boast that in a few years Japan will kick the West out of the East, but for the Premier and Foreign Office to go so far as they went in Tokyo last week was unprecedented...
...themselves.") Neutral correspondents estimate at about 175,000 the number of Chinese second grade troops killed at Shanghai, have reported that although some few of the Generalissimo's best troops saw action and gave a good account of themselves the bulk of them withdrew to Canton, thence to Hankow and last week to the West...