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 and Fukien provinces." Promiser Chiang promised to send 200,000 troops to rout the Reds.

Re-elected with President Chiang was his great fiscal backer Finance Minister T. V. Soong, potent Shanghai banker and head of the "Soong Dynasty" which rules all central China from behind what its enemies call "Nanking's rococo facade."

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