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Show iDVERNMENT LEADERS TO i FLEE NANKING lapancse Troops Expec-.tiflTo Expec-.tiflTo Reach Capital Capi-tal In a Week SHANCHAI, Nov. 1 (l(U.R) n inii(ji'l;t.nL minister of the ational government arrived .(cn'tly in Shanghai from ;,i!iki:ig tonight and others d i-e reported to be prepared I,) flee the capital momen- Ill-il V- Ministcis of tin: nationalist gov-riunent gov-riunent appeared to be convinced Hl the retreating- Chinese armies mild do no more than delay the .ipnncso drives fi'iim north and oil! h on the capital." They were :ikl to Vc ready to iv.. for Changhsa and Hankow - when an expected hour of evacuation evacua-tion is set. An official statement issued at the capital implied that even high Chinese quarters believed that Japanese' would be hammering at the gates of Nanking within a week. Nevertheless the government clung to its determination not to submit to Japanese demands. A United Press correspondent at Nanking, experimentally tried to obtain passage to Hankow, found that accommodations had been buoked weeks in advance. |
