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Chiang Kai-shek Reported As Safe in Hands of Rebels; Kung Takes Nanking Reins. NANKING, China, Dec. 15 - (/P)— Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance In the Nanking Government, announced receipt yesterday of a personal telegram from Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang, rebel leader, assuring him of the the safety of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Dr. Kung took over the leader ship of the Executive Yuan, after mutinous soldiers captured General Chiang, military dictator of the Nanking regime, tow days ago. General Feng Yu-hsiang, retired army commander and former Governor of Honan Province who si known as the "Christian General," wired Marshal Chang imploring him to reconsider his actions and to heed "the earnest advice of an older man" to release the captive government leader. Civil War Looms. China faced disastrous civil war as the Central Government massed its forces on the border of Shensi Province to force the release of General Chiang. While troop trains rumbled west-ward over the Lunghai Railway, last-minute negotiations were opened to free the head of the Nanking Government-if possible-by peaceful means. Yu Yu-jen, President of the Naitonal Control Yuan of the National Government, hastened to Loyang, 200 miles east of Sian, in northwest Honan Province, charged with the delicate task of securing General Chiang's release from Marshal Chang, heretofore one of the dictator's trusted associates. Pleads fro Delay. Indicating the critical nature of the situation, Yen Hsi-shan, pacification commissioner of neighboring Shansi and Suiyuan provinces, thelegraphed Nanking, pleading that punitive measures against the mutinous Marshal Chang be withheld. "Undertake every other means rescuing hostages," Yen's message urges. He was said to have reported to the Nanking Government that he had been informed from Sian that the Generalissimo was safe and well but that his liberty of movement was curtailed. Chang Called Mutineer. While Marshal Chang, formerly war-lord of Manchuria soldiers, was said to have taken General Chiang hostage to force the National Government to declare war on Japan, the young marshal was charged with "leading a mutiny aimed at the overthrow of the National Government." He was ordered arrested and brought to trial before the Military Affairs Commission, the Government's highest military authority. It was asserted here that General Chiang, for five years a nationalist commander, had engineered the coup to gain control of the Government, using anti-Japanese slogans as catch-words to rally disaffected factions to his standard. Has Strong Force. Peiping dispatches stated that the rebellious chieftain ahd concentrated two divisions on Tungkwan, easternmost city of the province, to oppose the entry of the Nanking punitive expedition into Shensi. Marshal Chang is estimated to have directly under his command, or closely allied with him, upwards of 100,000 men of which 75,000 are armed soldiery. Behind his legions of potential
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Full-Text | Chiang Kai-shek Reported As Safe in Hands of Rebels; Kung Takes Nanking Reins. NANKING, China, Dec. 15 - (/P)— Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance In the Nanking Government, announced receipt yesterday of a personal telegram from Marshal Chang Hsiao-liang, rebel leader, assuring him of the the safety of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Dr. Kung took over the leader ship of the Executive Yuan, after mutinous soldiers captured General Chiang, military dictator of the Nanking regime, tow days ago. General Feng Yu-hsiang, retired army commander and former Governor of Honan Province who si known as the "Christian General," wired Marshal Chang imploring him to reconsider his actions and to heed "the earnest advice of an older man" to release the captive government leader. Civil War Looms. China faced disastrous civil war as the Central Government massed its forces on the border of Shensi Province to force the release of General Chiang. While troop trains rumbled west-ward over the Lunghai Railway, last-minute negotiations were opened to free the head of the Nanking Government-if possible-by peaceful means. Yu Yu-jen, President of the Naitonal Control Yuan of the National Government, hastened to Loyang, 200 miles east of Sian, in northwest Honan Province, charged with the delicate task of securing General Chiang's release from Marshal Chang, heretofore one of the dictator's trusted associates. Pleads fro Delay. Indicating the critical nature of the situation, Yen Hsi-shan, pacification commissioner of neighboring Shansi and Suiyuan provinces, thelegraphed Nanking, pleading that punitive measures against the mutinous Marshal Chang be withheld. "Undertake every other means rescuing hostages," Yen's message urges. He was said to have reported to the Nanking Government that he had been informed from Sian that the Generalissimo was safe and well but that his liberty of movement was curtailed. Chang Called Mutineer. While Marshal Chang, formerly war-lord of Manchuria soldiers, was said to have taken General Chiang hostage to force the National Government to declare war on Japan, the young marshal was charged with "leading a mutiny aimed at the overthrow of the National Government." He was ordered arrested and brought to trial before the Military Affairs Commission, the Government's highest military authority. It was asserted here that General Chiang, for five years a nationalist commander, had engineered the coup to gain control of the Government, using anti-Japanese slogans as catch-words to rally disaffected factions to his standard. Has Strong Force. Peiping dispatches stated that the rebellious chieftain ahd concentrated two divisions on Tungkwan, easternmost city of the province, to oppose the entry of the Nanking punitive expedition into Shensi. Marshal Chang is estimated to have directly under his command, or closely allied with him, upwards of 100,000 men of which 75,000 are armed soldiery. Behind his legions of potential |
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