Word: shek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on unchecked for 36 hours, and was carried to such extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. ¶ Comparative order was restored on the arrival of the Nationalist General Pai Tsung-hsi, Chief of Staff to the great Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kai-shek (sea below). General Pai received the British, French and Japanese consuls-the U. S. consul pointedly absenting himself. Soon the Chinese commander issued a proclamation calling upon Chinese not to molest foreigners; but in it occurred indiscreetly the term "world revolution" which was caught up and bandied by correspondents...
...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 the Committee, although definitely on record as desiring to oust General Chiang and take control...
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...
...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 of United States warships...
...week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist" or "Cantonese...