As the war raged on, the newspaper's staff fled to other cities, such as Shanghai, Hankou, Chongqing, Guilin and Hong Kong, to continue publishing, but local editions were abandoned as the Japanese captured more and more territory. After the war was won, Wong Wan San (王芸生), the chief editor, re-established the Shanghai edition on 1 November 1945, in the format and style of the old Shanghai edition. They had also planned to issue editions for other cities, including Guangzhou, but the Chinese Civil War forced this proposal to be shelved. "Ta Kung Pao" supported the Kuomintang at the beginning of the Civil War, but switched its sympathies to the Communists after the repression of intellectuals, hyper-inflation, and other violent purges of political opponents by the Kuomintang.