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...Neutral military experts deduced from the information available that Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers...
...Neutral military observers reported that the Japanese, who were bringing up fresh troops at the rate of 5,000 per day, were chiefly worried by the rapid, unseasonable rise of the Yangtze last week. Its swirling torrents were up 46 feet at Hankow, only six feet below the flood wall. It was possible that floods might soon make most of the Hankow region untenable by either Chinese or Japanese...
...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...
...American-supported colleges, as the nearest thing to neutral territory in fighting areas, were the only refuge for Chinese women from slaughter and rapine. Teacher Minne Vautrin of Ginling reported the admission of 10,000 young women to Ginling grounds: "Never shall I forget the faces of the young girls as they streamed in. ... They had disguised themselves in every possible way -many had cut their hair, most of them had blackened their faces, many were wearing men's or boys' clothes or those of old women...
...well as Artist John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more decorative were John Vassos' God Bless Our Home (see cut, p. 41), and John Atherton's Chirico-like Americana, in which pale patriotic statuary is poised against bleak winter scenery...