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Meanwhile, however, rumors that General Han Fu-chu, the able, progressive former Governor of Shantung, had been executed for failure to resist the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 24) were followed last week by definite news that he had been executed at Hankow by a firing squad. Said Shanghai's Daily China Press, which the distant Chinese Government still controls: "The shamelessness of many Chinese generals in the recent past is indeed appalling. Even in the days of the defunct [Imperial] Manchu regime responsible generals were wont to resort to suicide in attempts to redeem their personal honor...
...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...
...That the Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
China's once potent Governor Han Fu-Chu of Shantung, who recently yielded his capital Tsinan to the Japanese, last week was exhorted to "Hold Tsining at any cost!" To Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (360 miles away at Hankow), who wired this advice, Governor Han wired back: "I could not hold Tsinan, so I do not believe I am able to hold Tsining...
...right. Tsining fell. General Han retreated so far that he still had scarcely one-third of Shantung to call his own. The Japanese gobbled up another 2,725 square miles...