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...such times a troupe of performing politicians is needed. War Lord Yen had imported 15 from Nanking, capital of "Nationalist" President Chiang Kaishek. Headed by Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Left faction at Nanking, the 15 troupers announced (after the band had ceased to squeal and groan) that President Yen is today the true "Nationalist," that "Nationalist" President Chiang is no longer a "Nationalist...
...Marshal Chiang Kaishek, foe of Yen and Feng and "President of China" in name if not in fact, was reported leading his Nanking armies on no less than three fronts at once, was rumored to have contracted gangrene from a wound in the arm, was positively declared in Shanghai by some of his closest political associates to be dead - not that anyone exactly believed...
Money remained last week the chief weapon in China's civil war (TIME, May 19). President Chiang Kai-shek announced that one of his major foes, famed Christian Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, had offered to sell out and change sides for $3,000,000 Chinese silver dollars or $810,000 U. S. gold dollars. This may or may not have been true but it was significant. It lent special and peculiar point to the opening at Shanghai last week of "the greatest mint in the world...
President Chiang was rumored in Shanghai banking circles last week to have signed a secret treaty promising repayment to Japan of the $50,000,000 Nishihara loans which his Government previously declared illegal. Thus quiet Mr. Soong, the Shanghai banker who will have to find the $50,000,000, may yet draw the strongest weapon which can be drawn in China? Japan...
Japan taught both Yen and Chiang to fight. They were students at the Imperial Military College, Tokyo. Both came of prosperous people. Both got their political start in the revolution of 1911. Both are good men, Yen a Chinese Vermonter, Chiang a Chinese Virginian...