ABSTRACT
In October 1936 Chiang Kai-shek flew up to Sian to organize the campaign against the Reds. He found the Tungpei troops unwilling to fight the Reds, with whom they had so many interests in common. Railway trains full of war material were unloaded at Sian, and orders were given from Nanking that Sian and Lanchow were to arrange to receive a hundred bombing planes, to be used in wiping out the Reds. In Chiang's prison chamber at Sian the unification of China was accomplished under his will perhaps against his will. Dr. Kung was chosen as head of the government during Chiang's absence and the War Minister, General Ho Ying-chin, was appointed chief of the national defence and charged with organizing a punitive expedition against the rebels in Sian. The understanding arrived at in Sian received its confirmation in a way which saved the face of Chiang and the Nanking government.
