Word: chinging
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...richest men in China into bankruptcy when Chinese looted and burned his properties, believing him to be pro-Japanese. Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which wanted to make him mayor. Another of its members, Yung Tsung-ching, "The Flour King of China," said last week: "One cannot ride a two-headed horse and get anywhere. It is tragic, but true, that China today is virtually without a Government. During times like these citizens must fearlessly take charge of the situation in order to reduce want and suffering...
...made friends with the Chinese businessmen of Shanghai, turned violently antiCommunist, massacred some 3,500 unimportant Shanghai Reds, permitted Propagandist Borodin and General Galen to "escape" to the Soviet Union. He later made Communism a capital crime. General Chiang's only son by his No. 1 wife, Chiang Ching-kuo, had by this time moved to Moscow, busied himself denouncing his father from Soviet platforms, became a Communist...
...Communists were "greatly touched" by the contents of the Generalissimo's diary-which convinced them that he was not at heart pro Japanese. At all events the sequel to Sian was that Chiang's armies ceased to fight the Reds, and joyfully returned from Moscow Son Chiang Ching-kuo with a Russian Communist wife...
...That is not my mother," retorted Chiang Ching-kuo, "and having paid my respects to you, father, I am going to my mother and your wife...
...Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party to the Communist International and appoint Chinese Communist General Chu Teh to high command in the Chinese Army. The Generalissimo was further harassed by news from Hankow that leading Kuomintang Politician Wang Ching-wei had manifestoed to the Chinese Government: "If you want peace, you had better make peace before the fall of Nanking. What says our ancient proverb: 'It is a humiliation to make peace with the enemy under the city walls...