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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.Of Tientsin's former militarist masters the last to evacuate was blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents: "I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got left...
...182.Luckless Chinese businessmen of Tientsin were "squeezed" by Chang Tsung-chang, last week, for over $300,000-a bribe which this Super-Brigand shamelessly exacted with threats that if it were not paid he would sack the city before evacuating...
With so many large, well armed and variously belligerent forces in the Peking-Tientsin area, 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...
...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...