Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happiest dream of a Chinese is of China fighting Japan and winning. Last month hotheaded southern warlords of Kwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces notified Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that he must either declare war at once on Japan or be prepared to stop their armies from marching northward, in the general direction of Japan, the immediate direction of Chiang's capital at Nanking. What looked to the Chinese masses like the long-awaited war with Japan was soon revealed to be just plain old-fashioned civil war, as Chiang's Press asserted that the ostensibly anti-Japanese Southerners...
Meanwhile 27 U. S. bombing planes, newly purchased by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, were kept thundering over Nanking, his capital, to impress last week's arriving delegates to the so-called Chinese Parliament or Central Executive Committee. This gathering's name, copied from that of the ruling body in Moscow, recalls the days when Generalissimo Chiang fought with the assistance of Communist subsidies. Today Nanking is a modern Capitalist capital and Chiang's bureaucrats keep fit with daily calisthenics dictated by his New Life Movement, appear nattily efficient and most different from the opium-soaked Chinese often...
...faced challenging demands from South-west China that the Nanking Government gather all its strength and fight Japan as best it can. These demands have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious contact with those of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME, June 22). Last week Nanking split the Kwangtung warlords by the usual Chinese financial method. Kwangtung's No. 2 warlord General Yu Han-mou and nine battle planes landed in Nanking. Whereupon Chiang's parliament boldly dissolved the rebellious Kwangtung Government, named General Yu peace preservation chief...
...Japan. Last week General Pai Tsung-hsi seemed to have qualified. Long rated in Canton as South China's ablest commander, doughty General Pai abruptly sent the South's armies marching northward "against the Japanese." Simultaneously he reviled Tokyo, also reviled the Chinese Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek for having let Japan virtually seize North China, and proudly swelled his chest amid shrieking Cantonese plaudits. Only thing odd about all this was that there were no Japanese in the part of China into which General Pai sent troops "against the Japanese" and that news of their...
According to Chinese news sources, about 1,000,000 Chinese soldiers were soon involved, the forces of General Pai advancing against positions held by troops of Generalissimo Chiang north of Canton. Pai's untrained soldiers really thought they were advancing "against the Japanese." When they found themselves facing fellow Chinese troops they stopped, camped, waited. Meanwhile at Nanking the Japanese Military Attaché, Major General Seiichi Kita, spilled a great many beans by nervously observing that if it should be proved that Japan had sold munitions to General Pai there would be nothing irregular in that. Cried this dimwit...