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...bribery, advertising what he would pay to Chinese enemy commanders who deserted to his side. Last week, however, though General Ho apparently yielded to all Japan's demands in the name of his Government, there was no confirmation from Nanking or wily, wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kaishek. The entire Chinese Government kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Silver, Slaverings & Solutions | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...acceptable, Mr. Rea contends that the military despotism of the War Lords at Nanking furnished a satisfactory justification for a revolutionary separation from the fatherland. In short, Manchuria was exercising the rights of any downtrodden nation in seeking the aid of Japan to defeat the forces of Chiang-Kai-shek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/8/1935 | See Source »

After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Young Marshal's Escape | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Over these bits of good news Generalissimo Chiang smacked his thin lips, enjoying tea with "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. This gilded Chinese youth fell heir to the fabulous loot of his mighty War Lord sire, the late, great Chang Tso-lin, drinker of hot tigers' blood and toyer with hotter women. Last week the Young Marshal was still trying to make good, fooling around the Communist war zone in his shiny new Boeing plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Young Marshal's Escape | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...unprecedented novelty to terrified Kweichow were the Generalissimo's death-hurling U. S. bombing planes. Daily Chiang totaled up the kill-500 men, 2,000, then 5,000 as the pace of slaughter quickened; finally 7,000 slaughtered Chinese butchered in four days. As the Generalissimo's high-minded Nanking government pointed out. "the number of the slain is far less than those who die in a single provincial famine. There is only one way of dealing with Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hinterland Kill | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

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