Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Chiang Kai-shek, the greatest soldier South China has produced in modern times, once conquered all China (TIME, June 25, 1928), but is today president in fact of only an ill-defined area in central China with its capital at Nanking.
Great but vague battles took place last week along an east-west front about midway between Peking and Nanking, the rival capitals. In a general way this front lay along China's Lunghai R. R., with most of the fighting extending from Suchow (where President Chiang established military headquarters last...
From his field headquarters Marshal Yen telegraphed to Peking that his armies were already victorious, had slain 10,000 of their enemies, taken 15,000 prisoners and were advancing rapidly upon Nanking ? an exhilarating exaggeration.
Last week Feng, with his "largest private army," was reported to be making a wide, westward detour around the battle area, intending to capture Hankow, on the River Yangtze, "The Chicago of China," so called because it is the chief commercial city of Central China. If he does capture Hankow...
It is no coincidence that exactly 18 months ago General Feng, far from being Yen's war minister in Peking, was actually President Chiang's war minister in Nanking.