Word: ting-kai
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...hundred Chinese War Lords and Generals sent out telegrams denouncing Peiping's "Young Marshal" Chang for not having sent more troops to Shanhaikwan, proclaimed fervently their own eagerness to fight Japan. Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route...
Yours sincerely, (Signed) Chiang Kwang-nai* Ting-kai...
...Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...Japan's warships, all her guns, for all her planes, for all her 10,000 sol diers and sailors, Shanghai's Chinese de fenders under pale slender little General Tsai Ting-kai were doggedly holding...