Foreign News: New President, New Slaughter

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was re-elected President of China last week—not by the Chinese people, for they have no vote, but by the fifth Congress of his "People's Party" in Nanking.

Up to last week President Chiang had not kept his promise to march inland from Nanking and exterminate China's Communist Generals or personally die in the attempt. But last week Chiang's Government admitted that the Communist Generals have recently "slaughtered or otherwise disposed of 20.000 Government troops in a series of encounters in Kiangsi. Hunan...

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