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...Chinese Independence Day last week gallant Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek drove boldly down the main streets of Hankow, reviewing 80,000 Chinese among whom might easily have lurked a Japanese-paid assassin. Chicago Daily News's A.T. Steele cabled: "This was one of the Generalissimo's few public appearances...one of his most courageous gestures....Throngs composed of clerks, laborers, students and others who have been mobilized to assist in the defense of Hankow stood silent and awed as the Generalissimo and his wife drove by in an open...
...atmosphere of Hankow had been "gloomy as a morgue," but at noon on Independence Day spirits rose as Chinese G.H.Q. announced that near Teian, 100 miles from Hankow, some 10,000 Japanese had been "wiped out in a four-day battle greater than Taierhchwang." This was not subsequently confirmed, but within an hour after the announcement the previously silent streets of Hankow became a bedlam of exploding firecrackers amid which Chinese newsboys hopped about selling Independence Day "Victory Extras...
Severance of this line cut the main artery over which munitions purchased by Chinese in Europe and shipped into Hong Kong have eventually reached Generalissimo Chiang-the 700-mile Canton-Hankow Railway. At week's end Japanese contingents landed on both sides of the Pearl River delta, one column slashing communications between Canton and Portuguese Macao on the coast, another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong...
Meanwhile the two main prongs of Japan's drive in Central China on Hankow closed pincers-like. At Sinyang the Japanese blasted their way into the walled city and cut the only railway over which Russian supplies could reach Hankow. On the Yangtze River Japanese naval vessels poured shells on the fortified heights of Maoshan and Shihhweiyao, on opposite banks of the river and only 60 miles in a beeline from Hankow...
Over the sprawling Chinese war front Japanese troops last week continued their advance, shrinking still further the semicircle they have drawn around Hankow, temporary Chinese capital. For every mile gained, however, the Japanese paid a fancy price in blood and munitions. To replace gaps caused by death and sickness, 26,000 Japanese soldiers moved up the Yangtze on transport ships to aid the 180,000 already engaged in the campaign. Most notable temporary Japanese success last week was the cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile...