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...year ago it was enough that Chen was Taiwan's pioneering non-Kuo-mintang (KMT) President, the first head of state not affiliated with Chiang Kai-shek's founding party. A year into his term, Chen's novelty as an opposition figure has worn off. He is mainstream now, occupying the political center, and has to present himself more as what he is than what he is not. Chen has to give people something to believe in, show the taxi drivers in Kaohsiung and the betel nut salesgirls in Chiayi what he is about. He must now explain, vividly, what...
Canton. Victorious Kuo Mintang (Bolshevik) troops committed further atrocities on the defeated Yünnanese, many of them being butchered. As soon as they were firmly established in the city, they turned their activities against the foreigners. Strikes were declared and all foreign goods were boycotted. U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins urged all foreign women and children to leave the city. Many began to leave...
Canton, about 500 miles southwest from Foochow in the extreme southerly Province of Kwangtung. The war which was declared between the Kuo Mintang and Yimnanese factions (TIME, June 15) ended in a speedy victory for the radical Kuo Mintang (the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's party). Thereafter followed bloody executions of Yiinnanese soldiers who had surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that...
...protection of life and property. Strikes were declared, business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical, which retained the name Kuo Mintang; a conservative, formed from Sun's Yünnan supporters, called the Yünnanese Party. The Yünnanese controlled Canton. The Kuo Mintang controlled the nearby island of Honan. The Yünnanese generals ordered the Kuo Mintang to cease movements of troops under penalty. The Kuo Mintang retorted...
...Peking, Death won its inevitable victory. Its victim was Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder and leader of the Kuo Mintang (Young China) Party...
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