Word: kiangsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Last week a portion of the Eighteenth Nationalist Army Division under General Chang Chi-tsan was entirely surrounded by Communist forces in Kiangsi, faced annihilation according to despatches from Shanghai...
...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...
Such an army swept down on the city of Kianfu, Kiangsi province last week. Kianfu boasts a Christian cathedral. From it the bandits kidnapped three French nuns, two priests: one French, one Chinese. The whites were prudently held for $20,000 ransom apiece. Nobody seemed likely to pay $20,000 for a Chinaman. While the nuns gasped Pater Nosters through stiff white lips, Father Paul Cheng was led before them to the cathedral steps, brutally beheaded...
...president was sprinkled with baptismal drops. The trend throughout China today is toward displacing the white cleric or teacher by a yellow person. In certain interior provinces there have even been killings, recently, of Chinese Christian missionaries by their pagan brothers. Two such killings were reported last week in Kiangsi province. The slogan of the hour is "China for the Chinese!" And some Chinese consider Christianity un-Chinese. With these facts in mind Pastor Kaung said last week of his presidential convert: "At this time, when anti-Christian agitation is particularly rife, General Chiang's act required the highest...