Not only troops from Yunnan, Kweichow, Szechuen and Kwangsi are at present pouring into Hunan for the expected big battle, but the Chinese are also rushing preparations for prolonged hostilities. In almost every village in Hunan, Kwangsi and Kweichow there is a military training centre turning out new troops, engineers and mechanized units, The idea of resistance has spread into all corners of the interior provinces. Posters bearing such slogans as "Join the Army" and "Drive the Enemy Out of China" have been seen in the remotest villages in Kweichow and Szechuen and in the mountains where the Miao and Lolo tribes live.
The transfer of Chinese cultural institutions into the interior provinces has now been completed. Chekiang University, formerly at Hangchow, is now at Yishan, a small hilly township near the Kwangsi-Kweichow border the Academy Sinica is at present located at Kweilin and Yang-so, a small village near Kweilin; and the Hunan and Hupeh joint middle school is now at Chuanchow, near the Hunan-Kwangsi border.
There is a scarcity of gasoline and kerosene, both of which are being sold at the unheard-of-price of $21 for five gallons.—Reuter.
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