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...soon styled the Generalissimo, and headed a campaign to conquer northern China. In this war there was by normal Chinese standards some fairly heavy fighting. Most fortunate for the Generalissimo, however, was the assassination at Mukden of the doughtiest fighter among China's War Lords, the great Marshal Chang Tso-lin, famed bibber of tiger's blood and keeper of a harem of white women...
...Marshal's son & heir, Chang Hsueh-liang, "The Young Marshal," blamed the Japanese for his father's somewhat mysterious assassination, and allied himself with Chiang. Six years ago the Japanese drove The Young Marshal out of Manchuria and reorganized it as their puppet state Manchukuo, but the rest of China had been brought under the flag of the Nanking Government, that is, of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME...
Kidnapping, Year ago the Generalissimo was suddenly kidnapped and held prisoner at Sian (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936, et seq.). It was The Young Marshal Chang whose troops seized Chiang Kaishek. This kidnapping was promptly hijacked by Chinese forces allied with the Communists. At Nanking an extremely grave suspicion was abroad that Brother-in-Law T. V. Soong, disappointed in an ambition to become Premier of China, had put The Young Marshal, a "cured" ex-dope addict, up to seizing the Generalissimo. What followed proved that Chiang had remade China. It also gave the lie to generations of Chinese history. Instead...
...intervention treaty signed fortnight ago contained a great deal more than appeared on the surface. From Russian Turkestan to Inner Mongolia (with direct connection to Moscow) a Soviet air line was reported suddenly established last week. Among the first passengers is expected none other than sallow Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, whose "kidnapping" of Chiang Kai-shek was one of the preliminary steps to last week's war. Naming places, Japan charged that 72 of 210 Russian military planes had been delivered to Nationalist China through Inner Mongolia last week, hinted that Russian aviators might come to serve them...
Mayor Yui. The potent figure of Chiang Kai-shek had last week not yet appeared directly on the Shanghai front Chinese commander at Shanghai was a little known war lord named Chang Chi-chung. More important politically was the mayor of greater (Chinese) Shanghai, Yu Hung-chun who prefers to Americanize his name to Mr. O. K. Yui. Nothing so simple as a direct municipal election is possible in the China of Chiang Kaishek. Shanghai's mayoralty with the administration of a budget of $3,000,000-one of the most important jobs in the East-is a direct...