The most important duty then was to explain to foreign reporters that the lengthening of the front line was a strategic move to extend the war so that world opinion, amidst rampant appeasement, would not forget China. In Hankou the IPD began to grow, creating an overseas network with offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, and Hong Kong.
前一年在漢口時，國際宣傳處已漸具規模，先後建立了海外宣傳網，紐約、芝加哥、舊金山、倫敦、香港都設有辦事處。當時宣傳重點是讓外國記者瞭解，中國準備長期抗戰，拉長戰線是一種戰略的運用，免得姑息主義瀰漫下的國際社會放棄對中國的支持。