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...Nanking ("Southern Capital"), where the Nationalist Government which purports to rule all China is established (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928), slender, shrill President Chiang Kai-shek insisted that Peking's real name is the one he gave it two years ago, "Peiping," which means "Northern Peace...
...coincidence that exactly 18 months ago General Feng, far from being Yen's war minister in Peking, was actually President Chiang's war minister in Nanking...
...countrymen stand up and work for the Chiang's overthrow," he continued, "and I, Yen Hsishan, will do my best to assist in the consummation of this task...
...announced last week that he had assumed the rank of "Commander in Chief of the National Army, Navy and Air Force." Meantime, 15,000 of his National troops were invading Shantung province. There they soon defeated a number of Nationalist soldiers near the city of Tingyuan. Worried President Chiang Kai-shek of the Nationalist Government in Nanking prepared a major counteroffensive...
...hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...