WAR IN CHINA: Recapture Canton?

Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose whereabouts is usually a military secret, last week was revealed to have moved to a new headquarters in southern Hunan Province, midway between fallen Hankow and Canton. With British munitions and supplies cut off by Canton's fall and the possibility that French Premier Daladier will heed Japan's demand to close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and...

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