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Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
...zeal typical of a converted sinner Chiang threw himself into active fighting in the cause of the great Dr. Sun Yatsen, late "Father of the Chinese Republic." Dr. Sun was at this time experiencing reverses, having been driven from Canton, his capital, by his own War Minister. Soon Chiang Kai-shek with 10,000 men had materially assisted in driving the traitor War Minister out of Canton, and back to his walled stronghold Waichow, a city deemed impregnable...
...question was, how to capture Waichow. Dr. Sun's generals declared the task impossible. Chiang Kai-shek asked to be admitted to lay his plan before the great...
...Chiang Kai-shek explained his plan. It depended on his ability to fire his 10,000 soldiers with sufficient enthusiasm to follow him in a direct frontal attack on the walled city of Waichow during which they would nearly all most certainly be killed...
When Sun died (1925), Chiang Kai-shek became the outstanding Nationalist leader, though still little known in the Occident. He led the greatest conquering army which China hao known in the present century up from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze river, including the present Nationalist Capital, Hankow (TIME, Oct. 18). Thence he has proceeded to capture all the great cities south of the lower Yangtze, completing his conquest of the Southern half of China by taking Shanghai (TIME, March...