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...Foreign Office and all civilian bureaus of the Chinese Government began withdrawing from Hankow last week, under orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that they must be established in Chungking, some 650 miles farther up the Yangtze River. Japan's drive up the Yangtze was still balked at Kiukiang, 135 miles below Hankow, by desperate Chinese resistance amid a scorching heat wave which sent thermometers...
Neutral military observers reported that the Japanese, who were bringing up fresh troops at the rate of 5,000 per day, were chiefly worried by the rapid, unseasonable rise of the Yangtze last week. Its swirling torrents were up 46 feet at Hankow, only six feet below the flood wall. It was possible that floods might soon make most of the Hankow region untenable by either Chinese or Japanese...
...Hankow, attired in a new uniform of pale lavender, Generalissimo Chiang urbanely gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China...
Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25 and badly damaged 19. None denied that numbers of disabled Japanese craft were being towed down the Yangtze for repairs at Shanghai, Chinese spokesmen even admitted boldly that planes which hitherto have been driving Japanese bombers away from Hankow and the other Wuhan cities last week, left this defensive work...
Japanese bombers, finding the Wuhan cities substantially unprotected, came over, squadron after squadron during the week, flying at from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, above the range of Chinese anti-aircraft batteries. More than 100 bombs dotted the Hankow airfield with yawning craters. Wuchang was systematically bombed by Japanese craft flying in parallel lines, with nearly 500 deaths in a single...