Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shantung province, in a pitched battle. Northern troops fled back toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling of Northern forces looked like the turning point of the war, wagered that Chiang Kai-shek would control not only Shantung but also Honan province in another fortnight...
Troubles of Hankow and the Communist army distracted world attention last week from China's other war, that of President Chiang Kai-shek fighting to maintain the Nationalist Government against the insurrection of the Peking warlords. Both factions, as usual, were claiming an equal number of victories, matching their toll of deaths and captures. Torrential floods actually stopped hostilities...
Last week Northern generals sent Liu Chien-nien more munitions and draft of 1,000 soldiers. They were gratefully received. Northern generals ordered him to attack President Chiang Kaishek. Liu Chien-nien refused again...
...such times a troupe of performing politicians is needed. War Lord Yen had imported 15 from Nanking, capital of "Nationalist" President Chiang Kaishek. Headed by Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Left faction at Nanking, the 15 troupers announced (after the band had ceased to squeal and groan) that President Yen is today the true "Nationalist," that "Nationalist" President Chiang is no longer a "Nationalist...
During the week more than 1,000 keen young Chinese lawyers and "students" arrived in Peking seeking jobs in the new government. Meanwhile, in the field. President Yen's armies followed up their recent series of victories, wrested almost the entire remainder of famed Shantung province from President Chiang...