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Shanghai. Martial Law was declared in the Chinese city, last week, by Chinese officers adherent to Chiang Kai-shek (see above). Their soldiers nabbed haphazard and executed approximately 100 "Reds"; and concurrently the intermittent "general strike" seemed to be petering out, with all but a few thousand factory hands back at work...
...Chiang Kai-shek was my father and a revolutionary friend. He has now become my enemy. A few days ago he died as a revolutionary and arose as a counterrevolutionary. He used fine words about the revolution, but at the most convenient opportunity betrayed it. It is not likely that Chiang Kai-shek will continue to fight against Chang Tso-lin. Down with Chiang Kaishek! Down with the traitor...
...Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then the seven principal district "generals" administering Nationalist territory pledged allegiance to Chiang Kaishek, declaring him the true political...
...These events had the following apparent effect: 1) Chiang Kai-shek became de facto Nationalist Dictator, and can face the Powers as a proven foe of Communism. 2) The replies of Foreign Minister Chen to the Powers are likely to become dead letters. C Because all these developments came so pat to the satisfaction of Great Britain, the French press began to hint that the British have bribed both Chiang Kai-shek and the great War Lord of North...
...their wives spitted on sharp stakes when displeased, and keeps a likely string of concubines. At Peking, Chang reaffirmed to correspondents his violent antipathy to Bolshevism, and roundly declared that his troops were hastening southward and would drive the Nationalists out of Shanghai. At Shanghai Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight Chiang? Great battles between them seemed inevitable last week, but it was probable that their secret agents were even then chaffering and hornswoggling in an effort to patch up terms whereby...