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From a dinner in honor of General Tsai Ting-kai, Harry Whinna Nice, Republican candidate for Governor of Maryland, hurried off to attend a meeting of his campaign finance committee at the home of a Baltimore banker. In the banker's dark and unfamiliar garden, Candidate Nice toppled down a short flight of stone steps, fractured his right arm. Arm and shoulder in plaster cast, he continued to campaign...
...General Tsai," exclaimed His Honor involuntarily, "I didn't expect to see a youth...
Next day at City Hall, tall, quiet General Tsai, who speaks no English, produced a startling impression on Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia who had heard that his guest is a man of 41, the veteran of 172 Chinese campaigns in which he has been more than 50 times under fire...
Only when the General rose at the Hotel New Yorker to speak in Chinese to a great Chinese Charitable & Benevolent Association banquet, did Tsai reveal the drive, the mighty earnestness and kindling magnetism of the Hero of Shanghai. No representative of China's Government was present. Also pointedly absent was little General Chang Fat-hwai of the Government's "Ironsides Division." who arrived in Manhattan fortnight ago to study U. S. military methods, and may be made War Minister when he returns to Nanking. Shanghai was supposed to be Hero Tsai's theme, but the Chinese Government knew that...
...statesman, General Tsai has no patience with what he considers to be Generalissimo Chiang's policy of "selling out" China to Japan little by little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...