Show Soldier J te p President reSl J j of f c China C Cr nina r. r I Ba Battling I Reds Dreams Peace 1 4 T Tty ty t Chiang t Kai Shek soldie soldier president of China and his wife the former Mayling Maling Soong aist law r-in-law ri of the late Dr Sun Vat Yat-ien and anda adu teo of graduate a g c Wellesley college 9 Bravery Won Recognition Has Has Wife Educated in America By 8 NEA SERVICE Chiang Kai shek k president fo Chine hoso whoso nationalist government government govern govern- govern govern- in ment nt is threat threatened med by the recent uprisings s of 01 northern rebels and Chinese communists omm is 8 a 11 p paradoxical cal combination of oC idealistic le leader grim realist and fiery war war l 1 lord rd Barely Barcly 43 this young and modern chief executive of ot ri numerically the largest nation in the world world world-a a te teeming mass of oC nearly p people people has lias risen to powei powei- i in th thelast the thelast last five live years In a n. march of at conquest con con- quest almost in modern times C General Chiang Chinng w was s little known until h he was vas commander In of at the nationalists nationalists' northern cne- cne in the spring of 1926 Then within a n. YC year r h he hC swept cIt his enemies before him capturing cv everything south Muth of ot the tho including including Jn ing and Shanghai Shang DREAMED DREAM D OF PEACE Next he hc s set t up his own nationalist nation nation- alist altet government at ap apparently ap- ap determined to lead head his people to pro progress j ss e and peace and dreaming Of f the day when Chinas China's army of men could be d and mo modernization of or orthe the nation comi completed Convinced that Chinas China's problems lay ly layat at home he once remarked that when China ceased h her r internal warfare the problems relating to international affairs s will settle themselves But time and again the thc president has been forced to return rn the to to the battlefield bat bat- bat bat- and lead his troops Today the administration is believed to tobe he be in grave da danger ler SERVANT OF P PEOPLE OPLE Chiang calls cans himself a servant of at t tho c people and his ls headquarters Is an inconspicuous looking bungalow bunga low affair which makes s the United States consulate at look hook like a n. palace Yet his government In some respects at least resembles bles bies a n. dictatorship Chiang I U a. a a thin man of oC medium height He has closely closely- cropped closely cropped black hair a pl prominent nose tw twinkling n hing eyes ces wide wido mouth and a strong ch chin n. n Tho president doesn't smoke Ho did smoke but concluded it was injurious and stopped abruptly abrupt and then issued an order ordel prohibiting prohibit prohibIt- ing In- smoking in the arm army but naturally it isn't enforced WED MODERN GIRL Chiang is as asmo modern ern as he f is young The climax of his modernity modern modern- ity came in 1927 when he put away his his' old fashioned wives and married mar mar- ned ried charming Mayling Soong sis ais- ter law of Dr Sun Tat w who o ohad had been educated for 10 years ears in inthe inthe the United States and Is a a. graduate graduate grad grad- of Wellesley y college Ho had divorced his first wife married by Chinese ceremony b by bythe bythe the e simple custom of DC announcing th that t the tho marriage no longer longel existed exist exist- ed cd ed At Attacked as as having ln two other othel wives he replied that th the latter hatter j wert mere merely concubines s. s The presidents president's life story reads like a a. fictional l narrative e o of suc suc- ce cess s. s ROSE OSE FROM POVERTY H He began bejan life as a a bound bo boy boyto to a. a L m merchant and arid later enlisted inthe inthe in inthe the emperors emperor's arm army He lie won a scholarship in a government go military mill mili tary school chool made an In enviable record rec rec- or ord d there o. o and d went to Japan lapan for fora fora a a college education When th the emperor was overthrown overthrown over over- thrown thron In ij 1911 Chiang returned to Cl China to fight for the new republic But influence Irl Irked him and andor for or two years cars he Joined his col colleagues colleagues col- col l- l leagues in Inn a free and cas easy life drinking gambling and arid in company company com pany with Chinas China's song son girls without seeing his troops troop for da days s 's at a time C CAME ME TO LIFE Then rhen suddenly he le came caine to life and his bravery and military ge genius genius ge- ge nl won on his r rapid promotion In 1922 ho he was i appointed of chief stoff t to r Dr Sun Yat-s Yat Yat n and two years later commanded successful operations in tho area rea west of Canton Canton Canton Can Can- ton capturing capturing- the supposedly impregnable impregnable im im- im- im pregnable city of The Thc following ln year ea he was named commander in chief In the thc soUth southern rn at aimy's nimy's mys my's drive north northward card that le led t to the presidency nc |