Word: shek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinkiang!" With his Hindenburg Line cracked, and with Japanese launching 200 armed flat boats on Lake Tai to shoot up and disorganize lakeside villages, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek faced at his capital Nanking last week the virtual certainty that Japanese armies would soon sweep around south of Lake Tai, descend on him even if he could keep them from also sweeping around north of the lake and up the Yangtze River. Some 70 Japanese river gunboats were already pounding away at the Chinese boom of sunken junks which was flung across the Yangtze to block it weeks...
...General Matsui, victorious, was asked by correspondents if he would now attempt to press Japan's advance to capture the Chinese capital of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, famed Nanking, some 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Said General Matsui softly: "You had better ask Chiang Kai-shek about future developments. Chiang is reported to have predicted a five-year war. Well, it might last that long. We do not know whether to go on to Nanking or not. It depends on Chiang...
...most flattering sign last week of Communist confidence in the ability of "Our Sun" to strike abroad came in no poem but in dispatches from Nanking. There officials close to the Soviet Embassy opined that Dictator Stalin is about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth...
...bombs from nowhere, mines from nowhere, planes from nowhere in a land where every gesture is a tradition; for advancing national progress and a New Life in spite of centuries of worship and changelessness, all credit belongs to the Couple of the Year, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling Chiang...
Typical of belated but glorious news received by Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at Nanking last week was this telegram from Red Napoleon Chu: "First the left flank of our army began an attack against Ningwu, which was held by the Japanese and is situated 30 miles west of the important Great Wall pass of Yenmenkwan. After besieging the city for four days we finally recaptured it, taking 2,000 Japanese prisoners...