Hankow, General Chiang Kai-shek to-made an important statement on the military situation to a Transocean representative, Within two months at the latest, said the Generalissimo, the Chinese armies will be reorganized and the whole strategical plan to a considerable extent recast. This would According to well-informed quarters here, Chowtsun, 50 miles northeast of Tsinan, has been attacked by Japanese "planes, Meanwhile, Japanese troops are said io have crossed the Yellow River at Chinghochen, north of Chowtsun on the railway.
Seventeen Americans left Tsingtao yesterday by the Butterfield and Swire s. Shengking.
The Mayor, Admiral Shen Bungo lich, was visited to-day by a representative of the Chambers of Commerce in Tsingtao and asked to keep the port open.
The Mayor promised to do his utmost to aid shipping.—Reuter, entail an advantage for China.
Although it was impossible for the time being to reveal further details of the measures taken by the government, it could nevertheless be admitted that a. regrouping of the cabinet is intended, the Generalissimo declared.
Tu reply to a question concerning the next aim of the Japanese offend sive the Generalissimo replied that the Japanese front is now so extended that any prophecy is impossible, but that he was still convinced that the Chinese resistance would finally be rewarded by a victory. The 300,000 Chinese dead ana wounded would be replaced within a few months by new, fully trained recruits.
In reply to a further question regarding the new Chinese lines of defence the Generalissimo said that it was munifestiy impossible to give detailed information on that subject, but that the necessary preparations were being made to hold up the Japanese advance in whatever direction it might be attempted
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.