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Preparing for war with or against French Indo-China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek concentrated 120,000 local Chinese troops on his southern border with an additional 80,000 from his Chungking Army to form a rear guard. His sappers dynamited the 450-foot railway bridge spanning the Red River on the Indo-China-Yünnan border at Lao-Kay and Chinese labor crews began to take up the track of the Chinese portion of the French-owned railway for use elsewhere in China. One hundred and twenty small and large Japanese warships moved into the Gulf of Tonkin...
Aware that the invasion of Yünnan Province through Indo-China would put a serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...
...South Chinese are short, voluble, emotional, but the North Chinese are tall, silent and stubborn. In 1928 the then newfangled Chiang Kai-shek Government changed the name Peking (Northern Capital) to Peiping (Northern Peace). The farmers in the neighborhood did not like the Chiang Government and so they refused to call the city by its new name...
...nine years later the Japanese arrived, and soon changed the name back to Peking. The farmers, who now liked Chiang and hated the Japanese, proceeded to change their minds and call the city Peiping...
...Ministry of Information several short-wave radios are tuned in, day & night to each of the world capitals. Before each radio sits an alert operator, ready at a moment's notice to translate a Russian, German, British or French flash and hurry it to the attention of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. One day last week the English-speaking operator was shocked into attention by a BBC commentator. The operator took some notes, then sent a courier to the Gissimo's compound. The report...