Tokyo, Sept. 10.
fter the fall of Hankow Cen. Chiang Kai-shek plans to withdraw ibis Central Army troops from the Wuhan area to Hunan, Kwangtung, Honan, Shensi, Kweichow, Yunnan, Kwangsi and' Szechuen ' provinces, ithe Hongkong correspondent of the Nichi-Nichi" claimed yester-Quoting "reliable information," ihe correspondent said Gen, Chiang plans {o send nine divisions of Cen-ital troops to Hunan and Kwang-[tung to defend Changsha, capital of Hunan, in ce-operation with troops under Gen, Chang Tzu-chung, Coyer-nor of Hunan, and Kwangtung in co-Operation with Generals Ho Ying-ching and Vu Han-mou, According to the correspondent, Gen. Chiang also plans to defend Honan and Shensi against a Japanese push from the north by sending seven divisions of Central troops to ce-operate with Generals Chiang Ting-wen and Hu Tsung-nan, while six divisions of Central troops will be dispatched to Kweichow, Yunnan and Kwangsi to strengthen their defences in ce-operation with Gen, Lung Yun, Governor of Yunnan, Gen. Chiang himself will retreat to Szechuen province with 12 Central divisions, the correspondent continued, The Generalissimo will try hard to secure military control of the south-western provinces, the correspondent. predicted, and "will fall back on Anglo-French assistance for munitions supplies as well as the economic development of southwestern China,"
Gen. Chiang intends to harass Japanese forces in the occupied area by "turning loose 13 divisions of Central troops to carry on guerilla Warfare," {he correspondent concluded.—Domei, Italian Journalist to Pilot Goodwill Plane Tokyo, Sept. 10.
Signor Mario Lualdi, staff member of the newspaper "La Stampa" in Turin, will be at the controls of the Fiat BR-20 plane that will carry out a goodwill flight from Rome to Tokyo in the first week of November, Italian officials here revealed today. Permission to fly over Japanese territory was given late yesterday Signor Lualdi will have a crew of three in Signor Giuseppe Mazzetti, as wireless operator; Signor Silvia Pinna, mechanic, and Signor Guellini.—Domei Lor Bledisloe, Chairman of the Sowhern and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland Royal Commission, and Mr. W. H. Mainwaring H.P. and Mr. Ernest Evans. K.C., M.P., members of the Commission, arrived in London on Friday morning together with the staff of the Commission, which has been away for some four months. Its terms of reference were to consider the question of closer ce-operation between the territories concerned.
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