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...ingenious Chinese government last week had Japan guessing whether the chief of their Air Force was still Mme Chiang Kaishek, or whether the job had passed to her brother, T. V. Soong, or whether- according to the last of three equally flat and contradictory Chinese announcements -the new Chief is anti-Communist General Chien Ta-chun. Reds call him "Bloody Chien" for his ruthless suppression of the 1928 Communist uprising at Canton and the 1929-30 Communist uprisings at Changsha...
Formosa is some 750 miles from Tokyo, but the fact remained that "Japanese soil" had at last been bombed in the seventh month of the war. Chinese did not, however, give the credit to Mme Chiang Kaishek. They remembered last week that all during the Japanese siege of Shanghai, defending Chinese troops complained that her planes rarely ventured to bomb the Japanese in daylight, bombed them only ineffectively at night, failed to sink or score a direct hit on the Japanese flagship Idzumo which lay anchored a fair target in the Whangpoo, week after week...
Four days after the bombing of Formosa, Associated Press flashed from Hankow, where Chinese Government censors handle every dispatch, the news that Secretary General of Aviation, Mme Chiang, "is authoritatively understood to be relinquishing the position. The strain of war-time duties is generally known to have taxed her health and this probably will be given as the reason for her resignation in the near future." Actually during the past month Mme Chiang has been diving quietly in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, leaving the active command of what she always called "my airforce" to others...
...toward the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line" were reported "broken up" by bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...
...verbal promises are seldom worth the paper they are written on. Retired Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks toyed with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered bloody murder, sued unsuccessfully for $5,000,000. When the astronomical Paramount suit sputtered...