Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, thousands of patriotic posters and banners have appeared in streets throughout the country bearing the likeness of General Chiang Kai-shek.
Many of these pictures, however, are so crudely drawn that they bear little likeness to the Generalissimo.
The authorities, therefore, issued instructions today to gendarmes to tear down any such portraits "which give the populace a wrong impression of the likeness of the Generalissimo, impairing the dignity of the national leader."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.