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...shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when he was "kidnapped" last year (TIME...
...Japan, apparently was rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...
That elderly and respected stooge, Mr. Lin Sen, the Chinese President, went aboard a warship which took him 1,000 miles up the Yangtze to Chungking. Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui and Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung announced they were going to Hankow, with the War Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier...
...turned out that Shanghai's three leading Chinese newspapers had decided the city was going to fall as much as two weeks ago, had removed their staffs and much equipment 700 miles down the Yangtze River to Hankow, where they came out with extras last week as some 12,000 Chinese troops were being asked to make a "last stand" just outside Shanghai's French Concession. The French hastily dug trenches and strung barbed wire, exchanging shouted comments with the Chinese soldiers many of whom were for frenzied resistance while others cursed "the useless sacrifice our Government...
...consider the withdrawals from Tsinan and down the Peiping-Hankow railroad large defeats' he said. 'We have just begun to fight.' [Then] he went back to his maps...