Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kalgan. The two forces clashed. General Fang hoping to seize control of North China. Meantime the able Cantonese 19th Route Army was still making its way slowly north with the rumors gaining daily strength that its real object was to fight not Japan but Nan-king's Chiang Kaishek...
From South China the Canton Government screamed that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek of Nanking had sold out to Japan, bartering promises of a pro-Japanese State in North China for peace. Under banners blazoned RECOVER OUR MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS two divisions went north from Canton including two brigades of the famed 19th Route Army, heroes of the defense of Shanghai last year...
...Nanking. Chiang Kai-shek promptly described the Canton expedition as "futile." There were other facts to suggest some truth in the Cantonese charges. General Hwang Fu, generally considered friendly to Japan, rushed to Peiping as an emissary from Chiang, presumably to dicker for peace. Word reached Tientsin last week of a Chinese army marching parallel to and cooperating with the Japanese troops. Its commander is a General Li Lichen who raised the old five-barred flag, first flag of the Chinese Republic, in Chinwangtao in March, is supposed to have been picked by Japan to head still another North China...
...army takes pity on your ignorant soldiers, and delivers this solemn command: Cease opposing the Japanese and Manchukuans. Break away from Marshal Chiang Kaishek. . . . Should you not separate yourselves from your army at an early date and become a new people, our great Japanese-Manchukuan allied army will advance...
...Your soldiers will be exterminated. Good and evil alike will come to harm. You will lose your stupid heads due to the failures of Chiang...