Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called on Tung Hsien-kuang, who ran a newspaper in Shanghai, to take over review of outgoing news wires. An Australian advisor of Chiang's, W.H. Donald, stressed to Tung the importance of this job. With Sino-Japanese relations deteriorating, China would need all the friends it could get, so he asked Tung to accept the post "for the good of the nation."
蔣委員長遂電召上海報人董顯光負責電檢，蔣的澳籍顧問端納特別對董強調這個工作的重要性，因為中日關係越來越糟，可能免不了一場惡戰，中華民國很需要國際的瞭解與支持，希望董顯光能接下這項任務。