Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dense, teeming Chinese quarter of the great international city at Shanghai was captured by the Cantonese Nationalist army, last week; but this great victory over a city of almost two million souls was won in a fashion inglorious and ridiculous...
...false alarm, that when they arrived, last week, their coming was almost an anticlimax. There was no fighting. The defenders, a miserable rabble of mercenaries, had simply fled back from the previous scene of battle; and, as they scattered to hide as best they could, the Cantonese Nationalist columns trudged in. As they billeted themselves in the Chinese City, British soldiers and marines paced with fixed bayonets outside the barbed-wire-defended Occidental City. They saw their first real action when retreating soldiers...
...Nationalist Disunion. Far more important than events at Shanghai, last week, was a meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist party at Hankow. The Committee is extremely potent, similar to the Communist Executive Committee which dominates Soviet Russia. When the Chinese committee assembled at Hankow, last week, it was the sense of the meeting that its members wished to relieve their Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that...
Paramount was the revelation that the Nationalists - hitherto united-are dangerously if not disastrously split. Victorious Chiang Kai-shek was reported in one despatch to have publicly renounced the Bolshevism professed by the Committee; and to be on the point of constituting himself civil as well as military dictator of the Nationalist movement...
...situation at Nanking is admittedly serious. Americans who would have been herded out of the city three weeks ago but for the incompetence of the American authorities there have been caught in the street fighting between Nationalist advance guards and retiring Northerners. That it is the fault of U. S. authorities that they are so caught does not alter the apprehension felt for their safety. But they have not been massacred, General Chiang Kai Shek has promised to guarantee their safety, and according to late advices last night many of them had already reached places of refuge under the protection...