Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
...really serious threat to his authority has been the spreading power of the Chinese Communist generals whose Soviet Governments rule some 200,000 square miles in fertile Kiangsi Province and thereabouts (see map). He has bought openly as many as 10,000 hospital beds at one clip, bought discreetly proportionate supplies of rifles, machine guns, field pieces, battle planes and munitions. For the heads of No. 1 Communist General Chu Teh and No. 2 Communist General Mao Cheh-tung-both Chinese of good family who received military training abroad-he has offered 80,000 silver dollars apiece...
Fukien was the last straw of revolt last week, the straw that broke Generalissimo Chiang's resolve to lead the anti-Communist drive in Kiangsi, the straw that caused him to summon his Council of Generals. Last month the Province of Fukien near Canton was announced to have "seceded" (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week Fukien's bold rebels dared to claim that they, not Nanking, represent the true Government of all China. Hurling defiance at Generalissimo Chiang they announced that their army will be led by General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army...
...real Communists who have studied in Russia, France, or the U. S. Whether or not they are connected with or receive assistance from Soviet Russia, whether their principles are understood by their followers, they have devised a system that works marvellously well in such landlord ridden provinces as Kiangsi and Hupeh. Last year it cost $45,000,000 to fight them. Most of the Nationalists were cool to the idea of battling Communism, notably Finance Minister T. V. Soong who resigned because he believed it a waste of money. His return this year was taken to indicate an easing...
China and the world awoke last week to the fact that war has been waging in serious proportions throughout Kiangsi Province these many months past. Able Finance Minister T. V. Soong of the Nationalist Government issued a statement confessing that "the Government has been entirely lacking in candor" regarding this war, but that now "the time has come to be frank with the people so that the Red danger will be realized." President Chiang Kai-shek himself took charge of the Kiangsi forces...