ABSTRACT
Early in March 1925, Kai-shek, with self-confidence verging on fanaticism, led his cadets and soldiers to capture Waichow for the second time. He was deeply conscious of what he had experienced in the last hideous battle. He was also conscious of the responsibility and gravity of this decision to rush regiments of young men to their deaths. But in planning the campaign, he could only see that such sacrifices were justified on the grounds that his bitter enemy, Ch'en Chiung-ming, had to be exterminated at any cost.
