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...half China. Within the space of two full moons his armies have swarmed up from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang, and last week he meted out to the starvation-worn Wuchangese the quixotic terms of a typically Chinese...
Peace terms: 1) Each Wuchangese soldier who possesses a gun will be welcomed into the army of Chang Kaishek. 2) The merchants of Wuchang will be required to pay to Chang the "back pay" owed to these soldiers and their future maintenance in his armies...
...soldiers who defended themselves in Wuchang (and only incidentally defended Wuchang itself) seized the city in the first place as the hired mercenaries of War Lord Wu Pei-fu (now fled), who certainly owes them whatever "back pay" may be their...
...Though the Wuchangese merchants must pay to Chang Kaishek, the "wages" of soldiers whom they never hired, he will undoubtedly keep the "pay" of his new soldiers himself and encourage them to forage for themselves by looting in Wuchang and wherever else they may be quartered...
...strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade and a half...