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...Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping hospital, officially with pneumonia, which was rumored to be really a bullet-hole inflicted by his own bodyguard, bought off by the Cantonese...
Newsstories that he had died of typhoid fever made Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, Vice-Commander of the Nanking Government's Army & Navy, sit up and take notice in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping last week. Among other things typhoid-convalescent Chang noticed that the first motor truck ever built in China had snorted out of his great arsenal in Mukden...
Just as wasp-waisted President Chiang Kaishek was about to shrill a speech of welcome to his "People's Congress" at Nanking; just as the President's northern ally, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, swooped down from Tientsin in his Ford plane, just as the party was going to begin last week, BANG-Revolution in Canton...
Chang Jr., despatches said last week, has now bought himself a trimotored Ford plane, commutes in it between Mukden, his inherited Capital of Manchuria, and Peiping (once Peking). At Peiping his official style is "His Excellency Chang Hsueh-liang, vice Commander of the Army & Navy with Jurisdiction over Four Provinces & Governor of Manchuria...
...Nanking loud Mrs. Chang Hsueh-liang was hospitably entertained by two of the famed "Soong Sisters," arbiters of Chinese society: Mrs. Chiang Kaishek, softspoken, Wellesley-educated wife of the president, and Mrs. H. H. Kung whose husband is the excessively aristocratic 75th descendant of Confucius...