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With his sisters' marriage to Sun Yatsen, Nationalist leader, he immediately cast in his lot with the southerners., Rising immediately to the head of the Finance Department he completely revolutionized the old method of tax collecting. The old system with all its red tape and abuses was completely scraped and a new organization started in which each collector was responsible directly to the Finance Minister for the taxes he raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed...
Foreign Affairs-Dr. C. C. Wu (son of onetime [1896] Chinese Minister to Washington, Wu Ting-fang, 1896-). Finance-Dr. Ku Yin-fang (onetime associate of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic"). Chiang, his "Cabinet" set up, hurried Northward with two armies, resuming the original Nationalist object of advancing to conquer Peking...
...Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then the seven principal district "generals" administering Nationalist territory pledged allegiance to Chiang Kaishek, declaring him the true political descendant of the late, revered Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic." Only three district generals repudiated General Chiang, stigmatized him as a traitor...
Returning from exile after the Chinese revolution, Wang became the political right hand man of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of the Nationalist Government, just as Chiang became Dr. Sun's most trusted general. Indeed only ten months ago, Wang was Chairman* of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Government. But he was ousted by the Nationalist radicals and retired to France just before the Nationalist army set out from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) on its successful campaign to capture all South China. How did Wang return from France so dramatically last week...
...decided that Chiang should be the sun to rise out of his own setting. They were believed never to have met; but when the young general entered, Dr. Sun rose dramatically to his feet, scanned carefully the face of Chiang Kaishek, and exclaimed: "Ah! Here is the second Sun Yatsen. He shall one day take my place! . . . Explain your project, Oh young and rising...