Hankow, Nov. 4.
"There ig not the slightest doubt that the Chiang Kai-shek administration has been dealt a staggering blow by the fall of Hankow, erstwhile impregnable stronghold of anti-Japonism and pro-Communist machinations," General Shunroku: Hata, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces in Central China, declared ina statement to the press yesterday.
The statement, which was read to assembled newspapermen by a staff Gfücer, stressed that it should not be presumed that the capture of the Wuhan cities marks a decisive step in the termination of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. The statement was issued It was revealed that the British tramp steamer Pattersonian, which rescued eleven of the crew of the Cantabria, had steamed under the guns of the Nadir in order to do so and had defied an apparent attempt of the motorship to run her down.
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