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...announced last week that he had assumed the rank of "Commander in Chief of the National Army, Navy and Air Force." Meantime, 15,000 of his National troops were invading Shantung province. There they soon defeated a number of Nationalist soldiers near the city of Tingyuan. Worried President Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Government in Nanking prepared a major counteroffensive...
While various of his war lords were consorting in intrigue against him last week (see above) Prudent President Chiang Kai-shek despatched an order to U. S. agents in Shanghai for a second armored motor car. Bigger, more potent than the armored Packard sedan he has used for a year and a half (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) President Chiang's new vehicle will be the most expensive car ($47,000) ever to enter China, has been planned especially...
...complete schedule of the lectures of these two professors is as follows: by Holcombe; "Sun Yat-Sen and The Spirit of Democracy", tonight; "Borodin and the Spirit of Bolshevism", Friday; "Feng YuHsiang and the Religious Spirit", next Tuesday: "Chiang Kai-Shek and the Military Spirit", Friday, January 17; "T. V. Soong and the Spirit of Modern Capitalism", Tuesday, January 21; "C.T. Wang and the Spirit of Modern Science", Friday, January...
...Whew!" Wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek of China made a proclamation last week which resembled nothing so much as a long shrill "Whew!" The President was voicing his relief at his success as a field-marshal in beating off and vanquishing, at least for a time, the armies of war lords opposed to his regime (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq). Whewed he: "The recent upheaval against our Government was the greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again...
Attacked on three fronts, the Nationalist Government of slender President Chiang Kai-shek teetered perilously on catastrophe's brink last week, then swung back to safety. Chief stabilizer was a high and bloody victory over the rebellious "Ironsides" divisions of General Chang Fa-K'uei in his attempt to capture Canton...