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A brave Chinese general is the one who defies Japan. Last week General Pai Tsung-hsi seemed to have qualified. Long rated in Canton as South China's ablest commander, doughty General Pai abruptly sent the South's armies marching northward "against the Japanese." Simultaneously he reviled Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squeeze Play? | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

According to Chinese news sources, about 1,000,000 Chinese soldiers were soon involved, the forces of General Pai advancing against positions held by troops of Generalissimo Chiang north of Canton. Pai's untrained soldiers really thought they were advancing "against the Japanese." When they found themselves facing fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squeeze Play? | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Should Japan obtain the whip hand in Canton and South China which she already holds in Peiping and North China, the so-called "National Government of the Republic of China" at Nanking would be squeezed between two red-hot tongs of Japanese Might. Last week's developments reduced to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squeeze Play? | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Such were last week's manifestations of the continuing crisis between Japan and Russia. Meanwhile Japanese statesmen had something even more serious to worry about. News leaked out that the Soviet Government had just concluded a secret treaty with China's Nanking Government, promising mutual assistance in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Plots & Shots | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

At Nanking Japanese Consul General Yakichiro Suma hustled around to the Chinese Foreign Office to protest. With a face blandly childlike the Nationalist Foreign Minister, General Chang Chun, insisted that not only was there no truth in this story but that the Nationalist Government had sent a sharp note to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Plots & Shots | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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