The Archive · 1937

MME. CHIANG BACK IN CAPITAL

Returns by Car After Visit to Shanghai Madame Chiang Kai-shek, who motored here from Nanking on Saturday morning on business, has returned to the capital.

Escorted by her distinguished brother Mr. T. V. Soong, she left Shanghai at 630 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Soong returned here after having seen Madame Chiang through the war zone around Shanghai. establishing strong defence lines from Tsangchow on the Tientsin-Pukow railway and Shichiachuang on the Peiping-Hankow railway. Advanced Chinese positions, he added, are also being éstab-lished to the north of Tsangchow by breaking canal banks and diverting creeks.

Fengcheng, approximately 80 kilometres north of Tatung, was occupied by the Senda detachment, the spokesman said, adding that important advances have been made in Shansi,—Domei.

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