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...still what decisions of basic policy concerning the China war have been quietly taken by the Japanese Cabinet. Able Wilfred Fleisher of the New York Herald Tribune thought he had found out in Tokyo last week. According to him, the Cabinet decided that once the Japanese Army takes Hankow, the present Chinese capital, no further invasion of China will be pressed. Since the beginning of the war observers have agreed that the most vital question was how big a piece of China the Japanese would decide to try to chew. Thus far they have shown every sign of recklessly trying...
Unfortunately for the Japanese, Dr. Sun did not fly in Pilot Woods's plane. Instead he shifted his reservation to Eurasia Aviation Corp. (45% German-owned) and flew in safety to Hankow, the Chinese capital against which Japan's forces uneventfully continued their offensive (TIME...
While the Japanese were stalled last week in their drive up the Yangtze to Hankow, at Shanghai the Japanese Army seized pro-Chinese books by U. S. Authors Carl Crow, Agnes Smedley, Edgar Snow, two issues of the New York Times, one issue of TIME. The U. S. Consulate protested. In a national radio broadcast Chinese Premier H. H. Kung, descendant of Confucius, described China's bountiful harvests this year, exulted: "God is helping China...
Black gloom settled last week over Chinese officials at Hankow when news came that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a truce. While the fighting with the Red Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...
...newsmen in Hankow, accustomed to second-hand stories of conditions in Japanese-occupied areas of China, listened last week to a first-person account by tall, bristly-haired, up-&-coming 42-year-old Captain Evans Fordyce Carlson of the U. S. Marine Corps. Having served five years as attaché to the U. S. Embassy at Peking, Captain Carlson returned to Hankow after three and a half months' "tour" as a military observer of the "conquered" provinces of Shansi, Hopei, Shantung and Suiyuan, where he traveled with organized Chinese guerrilla bands, including detachments of the Communist-trained Eighth Route...