Word: shek
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Civil War seemed about to spread to Manchuria, last week,-a development of gravest international consequence, since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...
...South China Nanking Government sent its main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently...
...great Marshal Chiang Kai-shek journeyed from Shanghai to Nanking, last week, and there fulfilled his announced intention of assuming supreme civil and military command of the "Nationalist Government" (TIME, Jan. 2). Soon he reorganized the Cabinet, appointing as Minister of Finance his wife's brother, T. V. Soong, and as Minister of Reconstruction his step-nephew by marriage, Sun Fo (son of the late, "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Excitement brewed and seethed as Marshal Chiang ordered into immediate session some scores of delegates who have remained impatiently assembled in Nanking eager to become the Nationalist Party Congress...
This great and rapid conquest was financed in large measure by Soviet Russia, but, after Conqueror Chiang Kai-shek had suffered defeat, political, not military, (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927), he turned against Moscow. Such an about face was not made by Madame Sun Yatsen. She remains Russophile, she is now in Moscow, and she was sorely vexed when the "Nationalist Government" recently broke off its relations with Soviet Russia (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). Therefore, last week, Madame Sun threw upon the side of Soviet Russia the enormous weight of her name and prestige* in China, by cabling as follows from...