Guess What? Who?

When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These--parked appetizingly in view--have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere.

The ingenious Chinese government last week had Japan guessing whether the chief of their Air Force was still Mme Chiang Kaishek, or whether the job had passed to her brother, T. V. Soong, or whether-- according to the last of three equally flat and contradictory Chinese announcements --the new Chief is anti-Communist General Chien Ta-chun. Reds call him "Bloody Chien" for his ruthless suppression of the 1928 Communist uprising at Canton and the 1929-30 Communist uprisings at Changsha.

It appeared certain that Mr. T. V. Soong had at last left the safety of British Hong Kong, flown to often-bombed Hankow where he resumed his functions as Chairman of the Bank of China "and Head of the Chinese Air Force" said a fourth announcement from Hankow.

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