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...mission boards through their Committee on Relief in China last week began a drive for $5,000,000 for the next year's work.* From China the committee received proof that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell you that those who criticized you and criticized Christianity in years past are the ones...
...Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye admitted last week that his Cabinet has been split for months on the question of whether the Empire's best policy is merely to keep trying to hold and digest what Japan has gained or instead make supreme efforts to chase Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who lost his Capital Nanking four months ago, out of Hankow, and then out of Chungking, and then off into Sinkiang...
Neutral observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
From Hankow headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week correspondents received information which threw a revealing light upon Soviet aid to China in the past ten months. At one time a "majority" of all pilots flying for China were Soviet pilots, flying mostly Soviet planes. The Chinese claimed last week that they have been bartering tea with Moscow in exchange for bombers, that the transaction has been "completed...
Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, warmly supported by Chinese and Russian Communists (see above), announced last week that he has just received the adherence of the Chinese Nazi Party. Explained a colleague of the Generalissimo as correspondents looked blank: "The activities of the Chinese Nazi Party have been concealed from the general public during the few years of its existence. Its Führer is Carson Chang who was educated in Japan and Germany." Führer Chang's brother, Chang Kai-ngau, is the Chinese Communications Minister...