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Reds. Ordered by the President of China into Kiangsi Province "to suppress the Reds" (TIME, Jan. 19), the Eighteenth Army Division was surrounded last week and disarmed. It promptly deserted en masse to the Chinese Red Army of Kiangsi which recently massacred with amazing ferocity 100,000 persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yen, Zero, Chang, Reds | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

General Chang Chi-tsan, Commander of the deserting Eighteenth, was held by his captors for $2,000,000 (Mex.) ransom. Appalled, the President of China despatched four army divisions to Red, rebellious Kiangsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Yen, Zero, Chang, Reds | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: River of Blood | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: River of Blood | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Father Paul | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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