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...MASTER KUNG - Carl Crow - Harper...
Back last week from the safety of British Hong Kong to often-bombed Hankow sped Chinese Premier Dr. H. H. Kung. There he met Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek whom Chinese newspapers had reported personally leading 400,000 troops against the Japanese in North China. Generalissimo Chiang and his German military adviser, General (retired) Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen, chatted optimistically with correspondents, while they watched several newly arrived Soviet battle planes take the air against Japanese bombers...
...Chinese Premier, Dr. H. H. Kung, was found last week to have quietly left Hankow, where his Government continued to organize resistance to the Japanese, and arrived in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. There he was greeted by Mme Kung, her brother, No. 1 Chinese Financier T. V. Soong, and her famed sisters, Chinese Air Force Chief Mme Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the sainted "Father of the Chinese Republic...
...China's Dictator Chiang Kai-shek resigned as Premier in favor of his brother-in-law (1 T. V. Soong, 2 Wu Pei-fu, 3 H. H. Kung, 4 Chang Hsueh-liang, 5 Eugene Chen...
...rumor was the fact that Mme Chiang, her sister Mme H. H. Kung, wife of China's Premier, and their brother T. V. Soong, Big Banker to the Chinese Government were in Hong Kong. That city is the traditional refuge of Chinese who have found China somewhat too hot for them, are waiting to see if it gets so hot they must go on to Europe or America. At present however, it is also the vital point on the diplomatic and military line of supply which the Chinese Government still has with the rest of the world...