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President Chiang Kai-shek, the greatest soldier South China has produced in modern times, once conquered all China (TIME, June 25, 1928), but is today president in fact of only an ill-defined area in central China with its capital at Nanking...
...Soong, head of the great Shanghai banking house of Soong, finance minister in Chiang's government, graduate of Harvard, is unquestionably the ablest, most potent, most public-spirited Chinese financier...
Great but vague battles took place last week along an east-west front about midway between Peking and Nanking, the rival capitals. In a general way this front lay along China's Lunghai R. R., with most of the fighting extending from Suchow (where President Chiang established military headquarters last week) 70 miles west towards Chengchow...
...Chiang countered Yen's boast by announcing that his airplanes were wiping out the enemy wholesale, though admitting their superiority in machine gun fire. All this, of course, was merely overture. As a general thing Chinese wars last until stopped by the winter rains or some particularly monumental bribe...
Japan? Two years ago the Japanese Government intervened in China against President Chiang and his Nankingers. Startling were reports last week that in a desperate pinch Chiang can now count on the aid of Japan...