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From Hankow last week came disturbing reports of dissension between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his military aides. Chief dissenter was General Li Tsung-jen, powerful military leader of Kwangsi, a South China province neighboring Canton, who patched up his long-standing quarrel with the Generalissimo when hostilities started eleven months ago. In the tortuous back-stepping before the Japanese the Generalissimo has repeatedly pulled his own crack German-trained divisions from the front lines first, leaving the raw, ill-equipped mass of his army, largely composed of provincial troops, to cover the retreat. This, coupled with Chiang...
...heads of the world's great states are notable as practicing Christians. China's Chiang Kai-shek is. Last week a new testimony to the Generalissimo's faith was circulated in the U. S. It was a translation of a radio speech, Why Believe in Jesus?, which he made last Easter...
Identifying China with the Jewish nation of the time of Christ, Chiang Kai-shek compares his own aims, and those of Dr. Sun Yatsen, with the teachings of Jesus. His reasons for believing in Jesus...
Already in Japanese hands are China's Boston (Peking), New York (Shanghai) and Washington (Nanking). Last week the Japanese pressed forward in a renewed drive to add China's Chicago (Hankow) to the collection. Capture of Hankow, temporary operating headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government since the fall of Nanking five months ago, would not complete the process of dismembering China but would leave the Chinese only a fraction of what was once their nation. In the Yangtze Valley, main trade stem of central China, industrial Hankow is second only to Shanghai. Into Hankow daily...
SHANGHAI (Friday)--Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek announced in his provisional capital at Hankow today that he will continue fighting Japan as long as a single Chinese remains to assist him. The Generalissimo called on the Chinese people to maintain their morale and assured them that victory eventually will be theirs...