Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depressed by this defeat, however. For many weeks their strategy in the north had been deliberately to sacrifice the provincial troops that seemed to have neither proper artillery nor planes, and prepare for a real defense at Paoting, 85 mi. southwest of Peiping, where modern divisions of Chiang's own army were being rushed. Japanese officers apparently expected to meet these well-equipped troops at any instant last week. Japanese scouting planes saw large numbers of anti-aircraft batteries, equipment that had been entirely unnecessary heretofore...
...night last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek did not go to bed at all in his headquarters at Nanking. What was keeping him awake was not only the north and Shanghai fronts, but the city of Haichow where there was as yet no fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking...
Gazing dyspeptically at the bulging belly of China's coast on his staff maps last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek picked up a ruler and drew a straight line down the 122nd meridian, which almost touches Shanghai. To the world's shipping a warning was sent that if it wished to avoid possible air bombardment all foreign ships must stay east of that line from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. A fleet of Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese...
...have our chance at last to proceed eastward to kill the enemy. We support the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and will fight hand in hand with all Nationalist armies. We wish to die in battle against the Japanese. We are sure we can recover the lost territory of Manchuria." Before they can do anything of the sort, the Communist armies must move north-east some 350 miles to encounter the Japanese at Tatung in the northern edge of Shensi Province...
...Orient's greatest, suavest diplomats are Chinese Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo and Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain Dr. Quo Taichi. Ordered to Geneva last week by Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek, their job was to raise the moral issue of the undeclared war Japan is now waging in China before the Assembly of the League and the conscience of the World. Too wise to beat their breasts or attempt either a pious or an ethical appeal, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo simply arrived in Geneva much before the Assembly was to meet and conversed intelligently with...