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...conquest of all China by Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...
...conferees included all the great Provincial Governors?hitherto semiautonomous "War Lords" in their own districts?and was chairmanned by the Nationalist conqueror of all China, spry, slender little Marshal Chiang Kai-shek who is now President...
Cried President Chiang Kai-shek, concluding the Conference: "It is gratifying to witness such a spirit of sincerity and co-operation as has been shown by those assembled in this attempt to solve the country's most vital and complicated internal question. When this conference opened, I said that the future of China depended on its success. I say now that the success of the conference depends on our fulfilling the measures we have adopted...
...order of President Chiang Kaishek, approved by the "Disbandment Conference" (see above), the great Chinese arsenal at Mukden, Manchuria, said to have cost $50,000,000, will be dismantled, and its machinery and equipment carried 1,100 miles southward to the new Chinese capital of Nanking, and there reassembled...
Whether "Feng the Mighty" will be permitted to shoulder this giant's burden-and incidentally to pocket Shantung-was not clear last week. At Nanking other Nationalist leaders were loath to comment; but Finance Minister T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of President Chiang Kaishek, did reveal that he has worked out a program for disbanding all but 715,000 of the new State's 1,500,000 troops. Whether some, any or all of Marshal Feng's troops would be disbanded, shrewd Dr. Soong would...