Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred thousand Chinese drew taut their belts last week, faced starvation with what fortitude they might. For three weeks they had been besieged in the walled city of Wuchang. Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the Cantonese Communist War Lord had ringed them round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...
...week. In their shadow Anarchy gibbered. The Chinese Communist tide, welling upward from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), gained undisputed headway at last. During the week the one hundred million Chinese who dwell in the Yangtze River valley found themselves in the power of the Cantonese Communist Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek. The Great Powers, anxious, perturbed, despatched a total of 40 warships up the Yangtze to protect their nationals...
Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the victorious Cantonese war lord, spent the week in directing successful campaigns against Wu and Sun and in strengthening his position at Hankow...