Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed port-city of Tientsin, from which Peking is reached, was surrounded on three sides, last week by Nanking Nationalist Armies and then quietly occupied...
...182.With the capture of Tientsin following that of Peking (TIME, June 4) the Nationalist flag now flies for the first time over all China except Manchuria - which is not part of "China proper," but lies out side the Great Wall...
...seemed well, but General Pao and men had scarcely left Peking ere they returned, driven back by the advancing army of a third Nationalist commander, famed Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the notorious professed "Christian" whose treachery is a byword, and who has several times made himself master of Peking. Last week he was of course an ally and a very nominal subordinate of the Nationalist Generalissimo...
...alarm was general lest the most serious disorders if not battles should ensue. In the circumstances, it was permissible to ask hourly, last week, "Peking, Peking, who's got Peking?" Amid extreme crisis, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek issued at Nanking an astounding communique: "The military phase of the Nationalist movement has been completed, rendering unnecessary further warfare. The office of Generalissimo is automatically terminated. The military council of the Nationalist government hereafter will administer all military affairs." In conclusion Chiang said that he will now concern himself exclusively with "the problems of reconstruction...
Since to declare the "military phase" completed last week, seemed incredibly premature, observers sought some other reason for Chiang's resignation. They noted that it was followed immediately by the appointment of Nationalist Foreign Minister of Dr. C. J. Wang-a henchman of Feng Yu-hsiang. They deemed the notorious "Christian" dangerously in the ascendant, both at Nanking and in the Peking-Tientsin area...