\Chiang Kai-shek's Opinion of the, People Up-River Faway, May 20.
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, whose flying visit to Shanghai on' Wednesday caused no little surpris turned to Nanking by special trai jon Wednesday evening, followed by a heavy bodyguard and a large number of friends and subordinates. He was seen off at the station by a Jcrowd of interested Chinese but nobody was allowed too close to the Commander-in-Chief without a special pass.
During his stay here, Gen. Chiang was interviewed by members of the Chinese press and he stated that about 120,000 Nation-troops were pressing on Yangchow, which city was still in the hands of Sun Chuan-fang. He had however every confidence in its early capture.
Referring tothe Communist Government st Hankow, which he described as bogus, the Southern leader said that up to the present no action had been taken in connexion with a campaign in this direction. The movement in Hankow would soon die a natural death and, for the present, it was most urgent that whole-hearted efforts should be concentrated on the Anti Northern "Punitive Campaign. this connexion, he wished to. thank [the Tocal merchants, students and laboiters for the warm support they had already given him.
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