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...living chain of small industry over 2,000 miles long." Its links were some 2,300 plants in 16 provinces, run by 300,000 Chinese. Entire overhead for one month is but $6,000, of which two-thirds comes from overseas. For the Kuomintang is reluctant to help. Chiang Kai-shek's shih-shih (yes-yes) men see in it "a new kind of democratic working-class mobilization outside their control...
Japan's potential victims plucked up their courage too. In Chungking the Hunan Provincial People's Political Council stepped into the dispute between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Communists, appealed to Communist Leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh to end the "undiscipline" of Communist Army units and join the Government in a fresh attack on Japan. In Vichy the French Government announced that it would reject Japan's terms for ending the Thailand-Indo-China war, that French Indo-China would resume fighting rather than give Thailand 50,000 square miles of territory...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Hermann Kriebel, 65, participant in Adolf Hitler's beerhall Putsch of 1923, onetime chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, member of Germany's 1919 Armistice Commission; in Munich. His farewell to the Allied Armistice Commission: "See you again in 20 years...
...Lend Chiang Kai-shek another...
Last week the Chinese High Command in bomb-scarred Chungking had grave new worries. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's troops have been getting most of their war supplies from the southwest over the Burma Road, from the southeast by night smuggling from Hong Kong-via Chinese junks and coolies' carts-to the free sections of the Canton-Hankow railway. Last week the Japanese were slicing viciously at both supply lines...