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...against the arrest and persecution of Wang Ping, the Chinese student leader of the Amalgamated Labor Unions of China, who was first arrested and accused of Communistic utterances by General Hsiao-Lang, the chief of the army opposing the Japanese in Jehel, and then turned over to General Kai-Shek of the Nanking government, who now threatens to execute...
When General (later President) Chiang Kai-shek marched out of Canton in 1926, taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...
Governor Han. apparently satisfied, withdrew with his forces to Tsinan and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could pretend that the "balance of power" in China had been maintained?by a deal. What next? Han, having much expanded his prestige by ousting Liu, may be expected to conspire with his honored guest in Shantung, the famed "Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang. onetime master of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general, telegraphed wildly from Nanling to Nanking for reinforcements. Chiang Kai-shek did not answer. Japanese troops resting in Nanling sent a three-day ultimatum to the city of Chaoyang, 30 miles away, their objective as a base for the conquest of the whole province. As in the original invasion of Manchuria, capture of a Japanese officer, a Capt. Gonshiro Ishimoto...
...much as the top of his head out of his hole. All negotiations with Chiang's representatives he left to his small, sleek wife who rushed busily in a limousine from his hiding place to her hotel and back again. Soon correspondents thought they knew what Chiang Kai-shek was planning. In the past 50 years China has experimented with every sort of government known to the western world: absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, republicanism, communism, military dictatorship. With a Communist movement steadily growing in the upper Yangtze Valley (TIME, Aug. 15), the Nationalist government must do something about internal...