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There being no reporters anywhere near Shantung's suddenly created No Man's Land, correspondents hundreds of miles away in Peiping and Shanghai began a guessing game, guessed unanimously that Han would worst Liu. While the battle raged what was the attitude of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek? Did he back up Governor Han and order Subordinate Liu to submit? By no means...
Good soldiers die too easily. This sad fact has been commented upon by the commander of every army from Julius Caesar to Chiang Kaishek. In the Shanghai battles of last winter against Japan, the19th Route Army, best drilled, best equipped, made a name for itself that rang around the world, but in building that name, 8,000 good soldiers died and had to be replaced by recruits. The new recruits did not drill as well, and they had ideas of their own, no part of a good soldier's equipment. The 19th Route Army is still China...
...commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria, capture of a Japanese officer, a Capt. Gonshiro Ishimoto...
Fortnight ago the reed broke. Wang Ching-wei, Cantonese leader who joined his old enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling resistance to Japan put up by Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal. Sick, discouraged, disgraced, the Young Marshal offered his resignation too (TIME, Aug. 15). All the pleading of Chiang Kai-shek could not make him withdraw it last week...
...other country the consequence of such a move would have been immediate turmoil, but the body politic of China is so loosely articulated that it can lose an arm or a leg without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much...