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...quietly left Hankow, where his Government continued to organize resistance to the Japanese, and arrived in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. There he was greeted by Mme Kung, her brother, No. 1 Chinese Financier T. V. Soong, and her famed sisters, Chinese Air Force Chief Mme Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the sainted "Father of the Chinese Republic...
...sending more & more Government paraphernalia on upriver to Chungking, where figurehead Chinese President Lin Sen established himself directly after he left Nanking. Japanese planes bombed several Yangtze River cities between Nanking and Hankow last week, dropped leaflets in Wuchang across the river from Hankow reading: "Chinese! Your Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is a beaten wolf. He is at the end of his rope...
...Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek apparently does not expect to defeat the Japanese forces by direct attacks but hopes that (1 they will soon conquer all the land they want and then cease righting, 2 other foreign nations will step in to check the invasion, 3 the League of Nations will be sufficiently effective in taking action that will force Japan to withdraw, 4 the United States will come to his aid because of the sinking of the Panay, 5 in time Japan will defeat herself through lack of resources...
...China's Dictator Chiang Kai-shek resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law (1 T. V. Soong, 2 Wu Pei-fu, 3 H. H. Kung, 4 Chang Hsueh-liang, 5 Eugene Chen...
Whenever, in Queen Victoria's day. a recalcitrant Maharaja showed himself as "blind," "unrepentant" and "desperate", as Chiang Kai-shek is now (to use Mr. Hirota's adjectives), British subjects had to discharge their duty by recognizing some other Indian as his rightful successor, and Mr. Hirota indicated that this is exactly what Japan is in course of doing in China: "Our Government now look forward to the establishment and growth of the new Chinese regime capable of genuine co-operation with Japan which it is our intention to assist in the building...