The Archive · 1941

Shifting of China's

Capital Seen

Tokyo, Moy 28, The shifting of the seat, of General Chiang Kai-shek's regime from Chungking to either Kangting. eastern Sikang Province, or Sichany, southeastern Sikany Province, in view of the devastating raids carried out by Japanese bombers was reported "certain," in a special despatch fo the "Yomiuri Shimbun" this morning from Hongkong.

The "Yomiuri" said that reliable sources indicated that that the ims minent change of Chiang Kal-shek's capital was intimated by the former American Ambassador to Chungking, Johnson, when he pass route to the

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