Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, April 8), were simply abandoned, as a half-dozen rebel "Generals" absconded from their commands and fled for their lives across the sluggish Yangtze-kiang. Meanwhile other "Generals" made a great show of trampling on their revolutionary banners, and deserted to the Nationalist standard of advancing Marshal Chiang Kaishek. There was absolutely no resistance at Hankow when spruce Marshal Chiang stepped ashore from a Nationalist river gunboat described as the flagship of so-called Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chwang...
...news that Li had been cut down before he was quite hanged.* In other words, the revolutionary situation in Nanking, last week, was so chaotic that scarcely anyone knew where they were at. One evening it was creditably reported that the General Staff had mutinied and deposed President Chiang Kaishek; but the very next morning China's bantamweight President-who as Marshal Chiang conquered all China-marched forth against the rebels as chief of the General Staff. He left behind him in jail the governor of Canton, who had earlier been reported executed. He denounced him, General...
...order of President Chiang Kaishek, approved by the "Disbandment Conference" (see above), the great Chinese arsenal at Mukden, Manchuria, said to have cost $50,000,000, will be dismantled, and its machinery and equipment carried 1,100 miles southward to the new Chinese capital of Nanking, and there reassembled...
Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...
...Christian members of the Cabinet and "Big Three" are President of China Chiang Kaishek, and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan (TIME...