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Following this promise, Minister Johnson has paid frequent visits to Nanking, Shanghai, Hankow. Last week came details to show U. S. citizens to what lengths Minister Johnson has carried his promise...
Meanwhile four Japanese destroyers, the Cumberland and 160 British troops and an Italian gunboat were ordered by their respective governments to concentrate on Hankow, "Chicago of China," to cooperate with each other in every way possible. Eleven U. S. gunboats were at Hankow but under orders from the state department to avoid any official "joint action" with other powers. Foreign governments were nervous. Hankow, richest of prizes, was directly in the path of the "Communist" army advancing north from Changsha, and neither the Nationalist Government nor the Northern Peking rebels seemed likely to stop them...
Troubles of Hankow and the Communist army distracted world attention last week from China's other war, that of President Chiang Kai-shek fighting to maintain the Nationalist Government against the insurrection of the Peking warlords. Both factions, as usual, were claiming an equal number of victories, matching their toll of deaths and captures. Torrential floods actually stopped hostilities...
...avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city of over 500,000 souls clean of loot, collected a ransom of 700,000 Shanghai dollars ($264,000), moved on to attack Hankow, "Chicago of China" and Kuling, mountain resort...
Last week Feng, with his "largest private army," was reported to be making a wide, westward detour around the battle area, intending to capture Hankow, on the River Yangtze, "The Chicago of China," so called because it is the chief commercial city of Central China. If he does capture Hankow, Feng can descend the river and approach Nanking's rear in crushing force...