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...battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
...Your ultimatum to the Fukien rebels has expired," correspondents reminded the Nanking Government's Foreign Office spokesman last week. "Why don't Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops advance and fight...
Nanking troop trains continued to rush soldiers down to the Fukien front, but Generalissimo Chiang did not follow them. He developed a fresh interest in his anti-Communist campaign in Kiangsi. Meanwhile the Fukien rebels continued to demand that both Generalissimo Chiang and Nanking Premier Wang Ching-wei resign. Wang and Chiang reacted in a way which showed that Fukien and its famed 19th Route Army are gaining prestige. Said the Premier: "It is impossible for the Government to dispense with Generalissimo Chiang's services at the present juncture of the anti-Communist campaign, but if the people...
Month ago Generalissimo Chiang and Brother-in-law T. V. quarreled (TIME, Nov. 6) with the result that Mr. Soong resigned as Finance Minister. He was replaced by the Generalissimo's other Brother-in-law, Dr. Kung. But in Chinese finance there is no such thing as replacing T. V. Soong. Dr. Kung is amiable and highly esteemed, less clever than his wife "Pleasant." Mr. Soong is the only man who ever balanced China's budget (TIME, Jan. 2), the only Chinese Finance Minister who ever held his country's extravagant militarists in check. Unfortunately Soong...
...Chiang, Commander-in-Chief...