Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nanking's purpose in thus yielding what Canton had already seized was merely to preserve intact, so far as possible, the complicated customs collection machinery in which numerous foreign experts function as important cogs. Cog A. C. E. Braud, the English Customs Commissioner at Canton, squeaked: "I accept this...
Until recently "General Chan'' fought for Nanking under General Chang Huichang, Commander-in-chief of the Nanking air force. Last week in Canton General Chang Huichang took office as Commander-in-chief of the Canton air force. Cried loyal "General Chan," "Our Canton air force is superior to...
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was re-elected President of China last week?not by the Chinese people, for they have no vote, but by the fifth Congress of his "People's Party" in Nanking.
Up to last week President Chiang had not 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...
Re-elected with President Chiang was his great fiscal backer Finance Minister T. V. Soong, potent Shanghai banker and head of the "Soong Dynasty" which rules all central China from behind what its enemies call "Nanking's rococo facade."