Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That under Generalissimo Chiang's personal leadership crumpling Chinese resistance in Shantung rallied, that the city of Tsining, captured fortnight ago by the Japanese was several times recaptured by both sides with the Chinese finally claiming 250 square miles...
...That Shantung's former Governor, General Han Fu-chu, was arrested by order of the Generalissimo, carried to Hankow, tried for treason and reported executed. Last year General Han contributed $50,000,000 Mex. to Chiang's cause, but his complete failure to defend Shantung presumably canceled this credit...
...That the Generalissimo was acting more & more in concert with Chinese Communists, hence the reported execution of General Han, hence the arrests last week by Chiang's order of General Yen Hsi-shan, long famed as "The Model Governor of Shansi" and of the even better known "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang...
...rumor was the fact that Mme Chiang, her sister Mme H. H. Kung, wife of China's Premier, and their brother T. V. Soong, Big Banker to the Chinese Government were in Hong Kong. That city is the traditional refuge of Chinese who have found China somewhat too hot for them, are waiting to see if it gets so hot they must go on to Europe or America. At present however, it is also the vital point on the diplomatic and military line of supply which the Chinese Government still has with the rest of the world...
...Hankow, the Chinese de facto capital, last week appeared Miss Agnes Smedley, a U. S. author who was first widely heard of during the kidnapping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937 et seq.). At that time when the Communists needed someone to broadcast their propaganda in English from Sian, she was put on the air. Fond of dressing like a Red Army soldier with red, five-pointed star in cap, Agnes Smedley announced last week that she had hurt her back, therefore would write a book on the Chinese Communists instead of marching further with them against...