Newspaper Comments on Dilemma Facing Gen. Chiang Kai-shek: Diet's Unanimous Resolution Tokyo, Aug. 6.
EPARATIONS are being made in Nanking for the organiza~ tion of a war Cabinet in which the so-called Communists and Popular Front will be represented, according to Japanese press messages received here to-day.
The Nanking. correspondent of the "Asahi" reports that the Chinese Government will probably issue 'a virtual declaration of war against Japan.
Commenting on this, the "Asahi" says: "General Chiang Kai-shek is now in a dilemma: if China loses a war with Japan, the Chinese Government will be immediately _replaced by a Communist administra: ion, white if the Generalissimo attempts a peaceful settlement with Japan, he will certainly forfeit tional' sympathy and give a splendid chance to the Communists to increase their influence."
"The only way out" the journal contends, "lies in Nanking's. return toa normal. course of relationship with Tokyo by resolutely. checking] the anti-Japanese tide which is now sweeping China."
Meanwhile, all Japanese women and children have left Nanking, from Which the male residents are also withdrawing. The only Japanese male residents in Nanking now are members of the Japanese Embassy, the Japanese military and naval missions, and journalists, Japanese press messages ascribe the heavy exodus of Chinese inhabitants from Nanking to "the popular conviction that the Chinese Government is determined to fight Japan, fs manifested in the Government's orders for the withdrawal of all families of Government officials from Nanking, the requisitioning of motor~ lorries, and elaborate alr-defence measures."—Reuter,
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