Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...will, and lacks both knowledge and judgment. Indeed, I really cannot comment until I see the official text because such a speech by a responsible statesman is incredible!" Where Was China? In all last week's fighting and alarms where was China? What was the role of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who is today Premier of the Nanking Government? For some years Generalissimo Chiang has avoided becoming involved with Japan or other foreign foes of China by remaining up-country with his large armies fighting Chinese Communists. His victories have been many. His executioners' swords have made thousands...
...Long ago Chiang pondered that prob-lem and selected the province of Szechwan. backed right against the Tibetan highlands and 125 miles from British Burma. Szechwan, biggest province in China proper, has a population (76,000,000) bigger than the white population of the British Empire. It is more or less isolated from Eastern China by mountain ranges and the gorges of the Yangtze River. In its centre forehanded General Chiang has quietly been setting up the biggest military and aviation base in China, 850 miles from his capital of Nanking. Szechwan's one liability is that...
...Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
...seriously dismayed by several thousand dead Lolos, Generalissimo Chiang concentrated on the probabilities of Japan's policy in China for the new year. Last week he was provided with a sufficiently obvious clue. A potent Japanese advocate of moderation has been wise old Count Nobuaki Makino. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal for ten years, trusted adviser and old friend to Emperor Hirohito, he has frequently stood off the more rabid proposals of the militarists. He is a standard name on every Japanese patriot's list marked for assassination, has been bombed twice. Last week Count Makino...