Word: hsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, knowing the mettle of this opponent, retaliated in kind. Over the Chinese forces in the Shanghai area-some 300,000-he put his onetime bitter enemy, General Pai Tsung-hsi, long held China's most brilliant military strategist. Promptly the campaign began to take shape...
Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west, covering the railroad to Nanking...
...Soong, and never in any circumstances Tse-wen Soong. This last would give any Chinese the jitters and is not only incorrect but "impossible"-like speaking of Roosevelt Frank-lin Delano. Mr. Soong's brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, was originally Kung Hsiang-hsi, therefore took the initials...
...latest reports from China, pretty much everyone as well as Japan was trying to horn in on the kidnapping, and Sian was becoming almost a forum. Expected momentarily by air was Mr. Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
...made extravagant excuses, but last week Dictator Chiang could boast that every province in China had answered his call. Notably the famed but for several years retired "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang showed up. together with the Big Three of North China : the "Model Governor" of Shansi, General Yen Hsi-shan; Governor General Fu Tso-yi, provincial chairman of Suiyan; and the latest admirable and exemplary governor produced by unpredictable China, General Han Fu-chu of Shantung.* They were said by Nanking officials to have promised the Dictator they would stand by him in case of war with Japan...