Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followed proved that Chiang had remade China. It also gave the lie to generations of Chinese history. Instead of rushing to seize Chiang's power Chinese soldiers and officials from all parts of the country began a bombardment of telegrams demanding the release, rescue or ransoming of Chiang Kai-shek at any cost. It was the ultimate testimony that after centuries the Chinese people had at last found a Leader. It is too early to give credence to rumors that Banker Soong was obliged to unsnarl the kidnapping mistake with millions of dollars in bribes. The more popular, official...
...last resting place of his old friend it was General Matsui's duty last week to complete the butchery of those Chinese troops, tragically misled, who, against the advice given by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's German military advisers, had been left to defend Nanking. It was a tiresome job, lining up hundreds of prisoners and shooting them down batch after batch. However, according to foreign correspondents who witnessed some of the executions, Japanese soldiers invited Japanese sailors as their guests and apparently all of them "thoroughly enjoyed...
...will resign." Up Peking staffs ran the five-barred (red, yellow, blue, white & black) flag of the original Chinese Republic, founded in 1912 at Peking after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the staffs on which from 1927 to 1937 flew the red, white & blue flag of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking Government...
...China hands could scarcely remember an instance in which a Japanese commander has ever behaved with such moderation. To them it reflected General Matsui's plain eagerness to induce Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to sue speedily for peace. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang had meanwhile left Nanking, which advancing Japanese forces were rapidly approaching, and arrived at the mountain resort Kuling. There German Ambassador Dr. Oskar Trautmann offered Berlin's services a.s a mediator between China and Japan, apparently was rebuffed. The Soviet Embassy reportedly sent an attache to urge Premier Chiang to join China's Kuomintang Party...
...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...