Foreign News: CONQUEROR

At precisely two o'clock, one afternoon last week, a long grim cavalcade of motor cars entered Shanghai from the South. Armed men, a hundred strong, rode in these automobiles—modern equivalents of a bodyguard of cavalry. A slim but unmistakably commanding Southern Chinese, clad in a uniform entirely unadorned, rode in the third motor car. This was the great Conqueror of half China (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), the Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kaishek.

So potent seemed the motor cavalcade that it was allowed to proceed into the barricaded French concession area, while Frenchmen...

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