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...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
...Ministry slated to establish itself just across the river at Wuchang. Obviously the main purpose of such announcements last week was to impress the world with a notion that whatever cities Japanese troops succeed in taking there will always be other cities containing part of the "Chinese Government." Generalissimo Chiang, although still Premier, was reported hourly about to turn the Premiership over to his brother-in-law Dr. Kung...
...personnel was moved or fled up the Yangtze River. The other four-fifths were given enough money to enable them to reach their homes in the provinces, urged to clear out of Nanking amid pathetic scenes. One high Chinese official, educated in the U. S. and a pillar of Chiang's regime, wept constantly as he supervised the packing of his ministry's more vital papers, the others being shoveled into enormous bonfires to prevent their falling into Japanese hands...
Long-eared General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...