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...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 he was going to speak his mind about Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...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...
...Chiang's tariff concussions go even further than to give Japan major advantages over other great exporters to China. They cut certain rates so low that Chinese owners of cotton mills, paper mills, breweries, coal yards and fish markets declared last week they could no longer compete with Japanese prices in depreciated yen, were threatened with ruin. By every post petitions poured in upon the Generalissimo and he received irate telegrams night...
...public continued its "unreasonable attitude," Generalissimo Chiang summoned a secret conference of government leaders last week at his summer headquarters at Ruling in the Lushan Mountains. Up for discussion was, among other things, a new Constitution which would take the President of China out of the figurehead class (a Mr. Lin Sen is now President) and give him full powers. The implication was that Generalissimo Chiang will make himself President and move into the brand new $100,000 Chinese "White House" (yellow walls, blue tile roof) at Nanking which puppet President Lin has never ventured to occupy...
When Death came to Tibet's potent Grand Dalai Lama, his exiled rival the Panchen Lama promptly began casting about China for funds to stage a Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have...