Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Canton, lately the centre of a tricky revolt against Nanking which cloaked itself in the guise of a Chinese movement to fight Japan, entered last week General Yu Han-mou, newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese...
Even those 100% skeptics about everything Chinese, the non-Chinese-speaking white correspondents at Shanghai, agreed last week that the Nanking Government of sagacious Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has now got a firmer hold upon recently rebellious South China than has been held by any Chinese Government since the collapse in 1912 of the Empire of the Manchus...
...this was largely rumor, only General Chen knowing in what shape he had actually left Cantonese finances. To straighten these out Generalissimo Chiang did not call for the financial commission of white experts which might have been sent for a decade or more ago. Honesty in the sense that Western bankers are "honest" and efficiency in the sense that they are "efficient" is now in China the function of the Generalissimo's in-laws, the Family of Soong. Since famed Mr. T. V. Soong, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, could not be spared...
When at last the soldiers in the ranks refused to fight, Chen knew he was beaten. He told Chiang, through an emissary, that he would quit if Chiang would give him a high-sounding title under which he could honorably travel abroad. That night his Second Kwangtung Army having surrendered, Chen scuttled to a British gunboat, headed for British Hongkong where he has a tidy investment in real estate...
...Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed...