Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps and the International Settlement Police were called out to the last man. To give the Japanese no excuse for penetrating the area, Settlement patrols also began a systematic search for terrorists arrested 150 Chinese, found no ammunition. Two Chinese-language newspapers which had carried a speech by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were suspended...
...terms of U S dollars, the Japanese yen fell below the value of the Chinese dollar, the yen falling under 16? while the Chinese dollar held firm at 16.11?. For the Japanese, who have been trying to persuade the Chinese that their money was just as good as Chiang Kai-shek's and who have made valiant efforts to keep Japanese-sponsored currency at par with the British and U S-supported Chinese dollar, this was as serious as a big defeat on the battlefield Many a Chinese coolie, farmer or worker in Japanese "conquered" territory has even...
...emptied. For months Chungking merchants have done their business late in the afternoon, opening shop at 4 p. m., in order to limit the danger from air raids. That night the life of the old grey-walled city, last capital of the Mings 300 years ago, third capital of Chiang Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant...
...Robert to Japan's. In Tokyo, Sir Robert was greeted by Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita with great politeness and greater vagueness. But in Chungking, as he stepped from the plane which had taken him there, Sir Archibald was handed a copy of an important declaration by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek: "Our prolonged resistance, our policy of gaining time by sacrificing space and winning the final triumph through an accumulation of small victories, has reduced Japan to the position of a second-rate power. . . . We will not stop fighting...
Next to William Henry Donald, onetime Australian newsman (TIME, Dec. 23, 1936), Missionary Shepherd is today the closest white collaborator of Mme Chiang Kaishek. Last week he was in the U. S. on a speaking tour. In a precise, controlled voice, Mr. Shepherd spoke part of his piece on the radio last week at a New York Advertising Club luncheon. Its gist: "Left to themselves, the Japanese will never subjugate China. With the assistance of America [i.e. with U. S. scrap iron, other war materials], I sometimes fear that Japan will temporarily win this war. I find it difficult...