Word: kiangsi
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...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...
...kept his promise to march inland from Nanking and exterminate China's Communist Generals or personally die in the attempt. But last week Chiang's Government admitted that the Communist Generals have recently "slaughtered or otherwise disposed of 20.000 Government troops in a series of encounters in Kiangsi. Hunan and Fukien provinces." Promiser Chiang promised to send 200,000 troops to rout the Reds...
Next day the rebels claimed that War Minister Ho Yingching had joined them. He did not deny it. From Hankow he telegraphed to President Chiang with brutal frankness that 28,000 government troops in Kiangsi had just deserted to the Communists. Ordinarily such bad news would be kept secret...
...documents showed that in Kiangsi, one of the five interior provinces where Communist banditry has made a sore spot (see map), there now exists a Soviet Provincial Government...