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...clock one afternoon last week citizens of Hankow. China's temporary capital, heard the ominous roar of approaching airplanes. Within a few seconds they sighted, coming from the northeast in perfect formation, 50 Japanese bombers and pursuit planes. A few minutes later the authoritative echo of exploding bombs reverberated through Hankow's narrow streets...
...unfamiliar to most of the 1,500,000 inhabitants of Hankow and environs are air raids, but those Orientals and whites who did not run to air-raid shelters soon learned that this one was different. Out of cloud banks north of Hankow began to dart fast pursuit planes unlike those guarding the big Japanese bombers. They dived, attacked the invaders. Soon a spectacular dog fight involving not less than no planes, with the Chinese numerically superior, had developed. Big bombers were seen crashing to the ground, some lighter craft were observed tailspinning into the neighboring Yangtze and Han Rivers...
...mission boards through their Committee on Relief in China last week began a drive for $5,000,000 for the next year's work.* From China the committee received proof that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past are the ones...
SHANGHAI--Chinese and Japanese military dispatches today both reported that Japan's long-awaited "Big Push" has begun on Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek's fortified Lun-Hai railway line, defending his provisional capital in Hankow. The Japanese had captured a dozen towns and appeared this time to have thrown enough men and equipment into the series of battles raging at points on a great semicircular front around Suchow-Fu to make the Chinese positions around that key city almost untenable...
SHANGHAI, Thursday--A spokesman for the Chinese War Office in Hankow today said that divisions of Chinese regular army and scores of guerrilla bands were attacking the Japanese at more than a dozen points along an irregular line of about 1,000 miles from Hang-chow, capital of Chekiang Province, through Anhwei, Shantung, Shansi and Hopei Provinces. He said that 15,000 Japanese soldiers have been killed in the fighting in South Shantung Province since May 1, and that 3,000 have been killed this week...