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Read out were promotions, demotions. Executed as a salutary reminder of Chang's might was the luckless General Chen Shu-chiang. He had functioned, recently as Chief of Chang's military police, at Peking and was despatched for the (in China) comparatively trifling crime of "blackmailing wealthy citizens...
...great Marshal Chiang Kai-shek journeyed from Shanghai to Nanking, last week, and there fulfilled his announced intention of assuming supreme civil and military command of the "Nationalist Government" (TIME, Jan. 2). Soon he reorganized the Cabinet, appointing as Minister of Finance his wife's brother, T. V. Soong, and as Minister of Reconstruction his step-nephew by marriage, Sun Fo (son of the late, "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen). Excitement brewed and seethed as Marshal Chiang ordered into immediate session some scores of delegates who have remained impatiently assembled in Nanking eager to become the Nationalist Party Congress...
...Cable. Meanwhile Chiang Kai-shek was in difficulties at Shanghai, last week, with his sister-in-law, Madame Sun Yat-sen?although she was in Moscow. This dainty but great lady is the widow of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1867-1925), who founded the original "Nationalist Government...
While Dr. Sun lived, Chiang Kai-shek was but an humble disciple. After his death, the disciple eventually became generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies and led them up from Canton to conquer the southern half of China (TIME...
This great and rapid conquest was financed in large measure by Soviet Russia, but, after Conqueror Chiang Kai-shek had suffered defeat, political, not military, (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927), he turned against Moscow. Such an about face was not made by Madame Sun Yatsen. She remains Russophile, she is now in Moscow, and she was sorely vexed when the "Nationalist Government" recently broke off its relations with Soviet Russia (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927). Therefore, last week, Madame Sun threw upon the side of Soviet Russia the enormous weight of her name and prestige* in China, by cabling as follows from...