The Washington times., 1935-11-16
Human Side
Of the
News
By EdWin G. Hill
CHANG KAI-SHEK

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relinquish his post" says Col.
Takashi Sakai, chief Of staff of
the japanese forces in North
China.
"A new setup, politically as
well as economically independent
of Nanking, is necessary in North
China" says Maj. Gen. Hayao
Tada, commandant of the Japa-
nese forces 4 Tientsin.
In view of such statements,
there can be no doubt that Mr..
Chang Kai-shek, the 49-year-old
dictator, is on the spot. Things
already have begun to pop. The
prime minister Of the Nanking
government has been shot by a
Chinese assassin, presumably be-
cause the prime minister was pro-
Japanese. China has gone off
the silver standard and has ma
tionalized its currency, much to
the annoyance of Tokyo. And
England is rushing to explain
that she is not behind the none
tary policy inaugurated at Nan.
king.
A devils broth is brewing in
the East. The West is pretty
much occupied with Mussolini.
Ethiopia and the Mediterranean
and it appears that Japan is
ready to take advantage of this
preoccupation and do in Northern
China, at least, what she has
already done in Manchuria.
DIPLOMATIC GAME
The willy Chang and the
equally willy Japanese foreign
office have been playing diplo-
matte game for the past year
without either getting anywhere
in particular. Now we are about
to have the showdown.
Foreign Minister Hirohita's pol
icy has been one of conciliation,
hoping by negotiation with Nam
king to have the Chinese recog.
nize the independence Of Man
chukuo and to end the boycottS
against Japanese goods. Chang,
on the other hand, has been try"
ing to extend his control over
North China against the opposi-
ton of the provincial warlordS
and the guerrilla Communist
armies. At the same time, he
has been careful not to openly
oppose the japanese.
His non-aggreSSion and watch
full waiting policy has at last got
ten under the skin Of the mill
tary party in Tokyo. They mis-
trust him, see him as playing for
time, years if necessary, until he
is ready openly to oppose japan.
They are certain, too, that he has
made another about-face and is
dealing with Moscow.
This is borne out by the state
ment in Marking that: China
has not yet been forced to decide
between Russia and Japan, but
some time in the future, perhaps.
China must make this momen-
touS decision"
REVOLUTIONIST
1t will be interesting to watch
the movements of Marshal Chang
from now on. For Is years he
has been in the forefront of the
revolutionary movement in China.
He received his military educa'
ton in Japan, returning to his
native land in 1911 to head a
brigade in the revolution of that
year. The next decade found
him a drinking, gambling officer.
who managed to make million
dollars in a speculation, which
sum he turned over to DR.. Sun
Yat Sen, father of the Chinese
Republic. AS the emisSary Of
Sun, he went to Moscow in 1922
and returned with Michael Boro.
din, a staff of Red officers and
Russian supplies and money.
With the aid of the Russians,
Chang trained a corps of boys
as the nucleus of the Chinese
army. He taught them to march,
to Shoot straight and to learn
the "Three Peoples Principles"
which are defined as nationalism.
democracy and socialism. He led
them in several brilliant cam
paigns which established the
Nationalists as the dominant
party in China.
Chiang's next move was a
coup d'etat which drove his Rus
sian allies from Canton. His
time of late has been spent IN
fighting Communistic Chinese
armies in the West and North
and in preaching unification OF
the country.
FLYING MARSHAL
The Japanese do not ike
Chiang's political maneuverings
and they care much less Tor nus
enthusiasm for the airplaneS. he
is the "Flying Marshal" and as
such has Travelled in the past year
over all the provinces except Man
churia and the independent and
hostile Canton area. He has built
I'D an exceptionally strong air
plane corps and has moved 1t
base far into the interior, Oh
viously to get it away from attacl
by Japan.
Just as he ousted the Russian
who built up his first army, n
has supplanted them with Italians