Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been...
Some Chinese said that Generalissimo Chiang had paid the 19th Route Army 6,000,000 Mexican silver dollars to retreat. But nobody claimed that the Nationalist executive session could do much but listen to Victor Chiang's "plans for the coming year...
...openly accuses the Japanese Government of contriving Old Chang's death, set himself up at Shanghai last week in a "modern Chinese house'' full of Grand Rapids furniture and hand-painted cuspidors. He said he had returned to China at the "urgent invitation" of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who was expected to appoint him to some Government post...
...battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
When U. S. newsreel men asked Generalissimo Chiang to let them film from his U. S. planes the actual bombing of defenseless Chinese villages some months ago he did not hesitate. In many a U. S. cinema house this week U. S. citizens are watching the bombs explode...