Word: whampoa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against this astute Mogul, wise in the thought of the Occident, the Cantonese War Lord Chiang Kai-shek steadily deployed his troops last week. He it was who created for Dr. Sun the Whampoa Military Academy in which the officers of the new Cantonese army received their military and political training-for they have been shown no less the use of the sword than how to propagandize their troops into a frenzy of Cantonese loyalty. Chiang Kaishek, a sort of super-Whampoa Cadet, is content to wear an austere cotton shirt and sips hot water with his frugal meals, while...
Cantonese Bolshevism. How Bolshevistic is Chiang Kaishek? Dr. Sun sent him to Moscow in 1922, and there he studied for a few months, bringing back with him Russian military experts who became instructors at Whampoa. Chiang has taken what Russian gold and guns he could get, but it should be noted that he could get no others. He has said: "We can and will use men and money from any nation sympathetic to us. . . . Russia, in general, has treated China better than the other nations...
...Canton, center of anti-British ire, the radical South China Government was captured by the super-radical Whampoa college cadets, who arrested 100 officials, patrolled the city, set the old stone-mud walls to echoing a falsetto communism...
...afternoon of the shooting; I have, also, a copy of the British Consul-General's affidavit giving the facts as he witnessed them. There were four or five thousand armed, uniformed soldiers at the tail-end of a monster parade of students, teachers and laborers. These soldiers were principally "Whampoa cadets," graduates of the Military Academy. The Chinese call them "student soldiers," but they are finished and experienced fighters. Most of the casualties among the Chinese were from this number, though most unfortunately some peaceful and unarmed students were hit. I am told that many students have freely criticized their...