Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grimly last week President Chiang Kai-shek prepared for May Day, rampage day for Reds...
Meticulously a commission sent by Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek into Kiangsi Province reported last week on the recent massacre in Kiangsi Province of 100,000 persons in a period of six weeks. Excerpt...
When General Chiang Kai-shek marched up from Canton through the centre of China four years ago to capture Peking and establish the Nationalist government he led an army plentifully supplied with Soviet arms, Soviet gold, Soviet propaganda. Once established in Nanking, the Nationalist leaders did their best to forget their Russian connections, but in southern Kiangsi province, through which they first advanced, Communist doctrines took such healthy root that there are today lusty bandit armies which march under Red banners, post Communist placards, preach Communist sermons in the intervals of strictly capitalist Private Looting...
...province, in a pitched battle. Northern troops fled back toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling of Northern forces looked like the turning point of the war, wagered that Chiang Kai-shek would control not only Shantung but also Honan province in another fortnight...
Troubles of Hankow and the Communist army distracted world attention last week from China's other war, that of President Chiang Kai-shek fighting to maintain the Nationalist Government against the insurrection of the Peking warlords. Both factions, as usual, were claiming an equal number of victories, matching their toll of deaths and captures. Torrential floods actually stopped hostilities...