Word: fukien
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...Fukien was the last straw of revolt last week, the straw that broke Generalissimo Chiang's resolve to lead the anti-Communist drive in Kiangsi, the straw that caused him to summon his Council of Generals. Last month the Province of Fukien near Canton was announced to have "seceded" (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week Fukien's bold rebels dared to claim that they, not Nanking, represent the true Government of all China. Hurling defiance at Generalissimo Chiang they announced that their army will be led by General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army...
...Party a greater share in the running of the State. Since there are no elections in China, the People's Party leaders are self-made politicos like Mr. Chen whose prestige is their mandate. Nanking and Peiping politicos stand for conservatism in the Kuomintang, while those in Fukien and Canton stand for a radicalism nearly if not quite Communist. What Fukien's defiance and Canton's demands really meant was that South Chinese statesmen are launching a new onslaught to smash what they call the Nanking "Dynasty of Soong," the real power behind the Nanking Government...
...pack of Southern generals, all with bitter personal grudges against Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, broke with his Nanking Government last week and declared the secession of the coastal province of Fukien, styling themselves gloriously "The Chinese National Great Allied Revolutionary Government...
...Since Fukien is only 150 miles from Japan's great tea & camphor island of Formosa the ugly possibility of Japanese intervention loomed, should the new "Government" grow obstreperous. Chances of this were good. Adjoining Fukien on the west is "China's Soviet Sore Spot" (TIME, April 27, 1931), pululating with Chinese Communist generals. Should they enter into friendly relations with Fukien they would have for the first time a direct and easy access to the sea. Ominous seemed the fact that the Foreign Minister of the Fukien Government is notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically...
...Nanking Government of North & Central China and its loosely subservient ally, the Canton Government in South China, is an area of great lakes, marshes and mountains pullulating with bandit Communist armies. Harassed from all sides last week, the tattered, hungry Communists saw to the east the fat fields of Fukien Province just before the harvest, beyond that the sea whence come their smuggled guns. Some 40,000 of them boiled down from the mountains, swept a small local army out of their way. Up to meet them swaggered Canton's 19th Route Army, famed for its defense of Shanghai...