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...Japan. Last week General Pai Tsung-hsi seemed to have qualified. Long rated in Canton as South China's ablest commander, doughty General Pai abruptly sent the South's armies marching northward "against the Japanese." Simultaneously he reviled Tokyo, also reviled the Chinese Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for having let Japan virtually seize North China, and proudly swelled his chest amid shrieking Cantonese plaudits. Only thing odd about all this was that there were no Japanese in the part of China into which General Pai sent troops "against the Japanese" and that news of their...
Died. Hu Han-min, 52, most potent champion of Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Canton, China. Friend and disciple of the late great Sun Yatsen, he helped draft China's constitution, codified its basic laws, opposed Chiang Kai-shek's direct methods. Arrested and forced into exile, he returned to China last February on Chiang's invitation...
Please, furthermore, publish my statement based upon authentic and reliable information that neither there exists such secret agreement between China and Russia as was referred to in the foregoing article, nor has Russian financial aid ever been accepted by General Chiang Kaishek...
Tokyo wiseacres were not impressed. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Government dare not admit an agreement with Russia, for a great proportion of the Chinese Dictator's power comes from the Western world's belief that he and his regime are the chief bulwarks against Communism in Eastern
...covering the civil war there: my father occasionally sends dispatches of general interest to the North China Daily News, but reports no "victories" for the Central Government. The Communists have, of course, no press; most of them are probably too illiterate to discover that they have been defeated. Chiang, with a monopoly on the war bulletins, naturally gives himself the best of the fighting. I do not assert that TIME is hoodwinked by his propaganda, but I trust that the editors will accept in good faith this sidelight upon the Far Eastern situation...