FROM: AST ALUSNA CHUNGKING DATE 18 OCT 1939 TO: ALUSNA PEIPING PRECEDENCE: INFO: AST ALUSNA SHANGHAI CINCAF OPNAV TOR CODE ROOM: RELEASE COMYANGPAT COMSOPAT 0530/18 0018 THE FRENCH ARMY ADVISERS WHO ARE NOW DEPARTING HAVE PRAISED THE FICHTING ABILITY AND TRAINING OF THE CHINESE TROOPSX THE TIDE HAS BEEN TURNED IN FAVOR OF THE CHINESE ON ALL QUESTIONS AS A RESULT OF THE RECENT VICTORY AT CHENGSHA X THIS MAY WELL BE THE TURNING POINT OF THE ENTIRE WAR AS PROVINCIALL UNREST HAS SUBSIDED,ALL DOUBTERS HAVE BEEN SILENCEDAND THE CENTRAL GOVTS HAND HAS BEEN STRENGTHENED X CHIANG KAI CHECK HAS TAKEN THE SCHECHUAN REBELS IN HAND BY APPLYING THE FIRMEST DISCIPLINE THE GENERALISSIMO WILL NOT DIVIDE THE STATE INTO 3 PARTS AS HAS BEEN RUMORED X THE POLITICO MILITARY CAMPAIGN OF THE JAPANESE HAS SLOWED UP X I HAVE RECEIVED PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THE NIPPONESE ARE SENDING 3 FRESH DIVISIONS TO TAKE PART IN THE DRIVE ON HUNAN IN ORDER TO REVENGE THEIR SERIOUS SETBACK X FACTIONAL STRIFE IS NOW APPARENT AMONG THE JAPS EVEN TO THE CHINESE WHO STATE THAT PEACE IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE AN ARRANGEMENT WITH ANY ONE GROUP WOULD NOT BE SUPFORTED BY THE OTHERS X THEIR RENEWAL OF THE OFFENSIVE IN BOMBING HANKOW IS CITED TO PROVE RUSSIAN HELP TO CHINAS CAUSE IS UNDIMINISHED AND MAY EVEN INCREASE 1140 CR |