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