Word: kai-shek
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...night last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek did not go to bed at all in his headquarters at Nanking. What was keeping him awake was not only the north and Shanghai fronts, but the city of Haichow where there was as yet no fighting at all, a seaport south of the Shantung peninsula, connected with railroads at Peiping and Nanking at Suchow. Japanese warships were off Haichow harbor, but did this mean more than the blockade of Chinese ports? If Japan had enough men to spare to land a third army at Haichow she could cut off help from Nanking...
...have our chance at last to proceed eastward to kill the enemy. We support the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek and will fight hand in hand with all Nationalist armies. We wish to die in battle against the Japanese. We are sure we can recover the lost territory of Manchuria." Before they can do anything of the sort, the Communist armies must move north-east some 350 miles to encounter the Japanese at Tatung in the northern edge of Shensi Province...
...south in Peiping, captured month ago by Japan, Chinese Mayor Chiang Chao-sung was submissively taking his orders from, Tokyo. Wily Japanese scheme for China's former "Northern Capital" was to reintroduce the Confucian rites of the old Imperial Court. Under the nationalist regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Christian, Wellesley-educated wife, Confucianism has practically disappeared from China, but there are many conservative Chinese who resented the change. In 1932 the Japanese found it a shrewd move to restore Confucian worship when they established the new state of Manchukuo where the population is 95% Chinese. Last...
...kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism as a tool for political purposes . . . and they have, through collusion with the communists, openly and energetically prepared for war with Japan...
...Shanghai from Tokyo that the Chinese Ambassador, old Hsu Shih-ying, had padded up to Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota's office, expressed a desire on behalf of China to arrange a non-aggression pact with Japan. T. V. Soong, former finance minister of China, now one of Chiang Kai-shek's advisers, when informed of the proposal repudiated his Government's representative in about the time it takes to say chicken chow mein. He snorted: "Our Ambassador in Japan is an innocuous old gentleman talking on general principles when thousands of Chinese lives are being lost every...