Several newspaper correspondents report conversations with General Chiang Kai-shek during the last few days, in which the Generalissimo showed complete optimism about the present trend of Sino-Japanese hostili He expressed himself, according io these sources, as being satisfied that the military situation in Shansi province will henceforth not deter ior ate, from the Chinese point of view and that it will take the Japanese army about three years to deal with the large bodies of Chinese troops operating in the mountainous regions of north-west Shansi The Generalissimo also states that the strength, of the Chinese forces two months hence will be precisely double the number that took the feld when hostilities broke out in the summer of last y
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