CHINA: Simmering

Chen Chien Routed. The only notable military action of the week occurred when Chiang Kaishek, onetime Generalissimo of all the Southern Nationalist armies, now War Lord of Shanghai and Nanking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) surrounded and captured 5,000 men commanded by his onetime subordinate, General Chen Chien. Despatches indicated that General Chen will be offered up to the Powers by General Chiang as a "Red" who, on his own responsibility, ordered and carried out the so-called "atrocities" against Occidentals at Nanking (TIME, April 4).

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