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...Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist party at Hankow. The Committee is extremely potent, similar to the Communist Executive Committee which dominates Soviet Russia. When the Chinese committee assembled at Hankow, last week, it was the sense of the meeting that its members wished to relieve their Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that the Committee, although definitely on record as desiring to oust General Chiang and take control...
...American authorities there have been caught in the street fighting between Nationalist advance guards and retiring Northerners. That it is the fault of U. S. authorities that they are so caught does not alter the apprehension felt for their safety. But they have not been massacred, General Chiang Kai Shek has promised to guarantee their safety, and according to late advices last night many of them had already reached places of refuge under the protection of United States warships...
...quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist...
...action has been the principle worry with regard to Shanghal General Sun, who holds at present the province in which Shanghai is located, is opposing the advance of the nationalist leader, General Chiang. The foreign population of the port and surrounding country of Shanghai is approximately 40,000 and the Chinese population about 1,300,000. There are huge investments there, both foreign and Chinese which would be jeopardized, as well as the lives of the citizens, if the Chinese armies were to try to seize Shanghai. It is for this reason that various governments are sending ships and soldiers...
...Government, who employs a white U. S. citizen, as his under secretary, and said last week: "We are not antiforeign, but anti-imperial. We are not against Germany or Russia because they are not against us; but most other foreign nations are imperialists in China, and our enemies." 3) Chiang Kaishek, the generalissimo who has conquered half China for the Nationalists. 4) Michael Markovitch Borodin, famed Soviet Russian political adviser to the Nationalists (TIME...