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...itself; but none the less Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek commanded at one time not less than a third of a million armed Chinamen. From the short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps of a dozen conquered War Lords, among them that of the once dread Chang Tso-lin, who for a decade held Manchuria, and who dominated all North China from his barbaric Court at Peking. Last week the son of defeated and assassinated Marshal Chang Tso-lin, young Chang Hsuch-liang, was reported to have hoisted the Nationalist flag over Manchuria and to have sworn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Brave Chinese. "Chang Tsung-chang, off to the Chinese battlefront, waves good-bye to 20 wives and concubines, promising to come back victorious. Anemic Westerners can only admire Chang's courage and verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Thus exalted famed Hearst columnist-editor Arthur Brisbane, last week, when the notorious, cruel, rapacious General Chang Tsung-chang put his back to the Great Wall of China and prepared for a last stand against the immensely superior armies of the new Chinese Nationalist Government, which now claims to dominate all China (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang's army of 50,000 was put to absolute rout by Nationalist & Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi, who took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Generally speaking, the new Nationalist State continued to make good its boast of ruling all China, except Manchuria, last week. The Manchurian War Lord, Chang Hsueh-liang continued unable to join the Nationalists because of his unwilling, enforced alliance with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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