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...Generalissimo's manifesto: "We were prepared for this [i.e. the fall of Hankow, Canton and before that Shanghai, North China and Manchukuo]. For years we have concentrated on development of West China, where bases for operations are established and where we will prolong resistance until victory is ours. We hope to lure the enemy further inland. The farther they come the sooner victory will be ours...
...more about Western China than George Washington knew about the Wild West-but not much more. In effect, Chinese officials, students and soldiers began a covered wagon trek to their Wild West after it appeared that Japanese troops could not be defeated in the coastal provinces or even at Hankow by those troops which it seemed judicious to use, and perhaps not by any Chinese troops...
...terms of U. S. geography, the Japanese took "Chicago" when they took Hankow. The Generalissimo this week was probably hiding in what would correspond to "Kansas City." Meanwhile, the nominal President of China, Mr. Lin Sen, and other Cabinet members have been established for several months at Chungking ("Denver"). They met last week with Chinese Communist leaders who were reported "threatening" to withdraw their support from the Government unless it reaffirmed unconditional support of Generalissimo Chiang, and this was given...
Chinese have transferred to cities in their Wild West over 60% of the industrial machinery of Hankow and much besides from other cities, including the equipment of several Chinese arsenals. To industrialize Western China now is a job like that on which Russians have been working for 20 years in Siberia...
...Soviet Union was supplying China with most of her war planes and some artillery, but that China depended for her small arms, machine guns and ammunition mainly on what she was able to buy in Europe. Most of this landed at British Hong Kong, was shipped via the Canton-Hankow railway, both ends of which are now in Japanese hands. The rest came via French Indo-China, and Tokyo last week demanded that Paris stop that (see below...