Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of anti-Red campaigns. But in both right & left reports, Soviet China seemed less a geographical and political reality than a wandering country like Swift's floating Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia-except that the Mexicans would...
...chine guns chased China's shrill-voiced, slim-waisted Premier & Generalissimo for 175 miles last week, but at last his sleek U. S. Boeing with a U. S. pilot at the controls outdistanced all pursuit. The Dictator and Mme Chiang were set down in the remote countryside of Kiangsi, according to some reports, Hankow, said others. There were even rumors that in hurriedly quitting Nanking, their abandoned capital, they were lucky to escape not only the Japanese but also Chinese Communists who had plotted to seize the Premier again, as they did when he was "kidnapped" last year (TIME...
...Dictator has waged innumerable practice wars upon Chinese Communist forces. These organized themselves in the hinterland under those Soviet auspices which made possible the original conquest of China by the Ningpo Napoleon. In 1934 the bulk of China's insurgent Communists had been coralled by Chiang in Kiangsi Province, and the Generalissimo's officers awaited orders, the execution of which, they confidently told him, would drive the Reds "into the sea"-i. e. down to the South China seacoast where they could be conveniently slaughtered...
Instead, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far East. Last week this seat of Chinese air power-aviation being the sole arm in which China begins to have strength-was being transferred 1,400 miles west to Chengtu in almost totally inaccessible Szechwan Province. This move by Generalissimo Chiang resembles that of Soviet Dictator Stalin in establishing strategic...
Last month Generalissimo Chiang an nounced that he had "broken the backbone of Communism in China" by chasing the Communists out of Kiangsi Province. Nanking authorities added that nearby districts were "safe." Nonetheless, a band of Communists bobbed up at Tsingteh and kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen Priscilla. One morning last week the Communists paraded the two missionaries through the muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive...