hourands of skilled agitators, Galen, naodern Genghis Khan, began the Noctherr punitive expedition. a *month his troops took Changsha, and a while later, in the stifling, misty heat of the Yangtze valley, Gen. Chang Fa-kwel's armies attacked the walls of Wuchang. Half of the attacking force were slaughter! fed, the tattered remainder winning the proud title of Ironsides.
Wichang captured, the started" thole march on. Shanghai, where workers and secret societies were ready to welcome them. But there Borodin and Galen made the fatal mistake for the Comintern—of underestimating Gen. Chiang Kaishek's ambitions. The latter secretly secured the support of the Shang-hal bankers and declared war fon the Reds. Galen and his Soviet comrades had to flee China for their lives, erossing the treacherous Kiongo-Vian" steppes in motor cars. Gen, Galen's place was taken by Col. Max Bauer, who later, so rumour says, was poisoned by Gen. Chiang's enemies.
Answers Young Marshal's Challenge Gen, Bluecher found Far Eastern front. In 1929, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. officially dishonoured to-day for hi part In the Sian coup, relying upon poor advice and still poorer troops, challenged the Soviet claim on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Gen. Blue~ cher's Juggernaut crushed the Chinese forces in several. brief engagements. and the "Young Marshal" capitulated.
Gen. Bluecher was given an une precedently triumphal reception in Moscow. But only a year later, that of a prospective Commissar of War. There was, the papers alleged, a stormy conference in the Kremlin fat which much was said of Blueeher's Immense popularity with the troops and the people. Bluecher, was sent back to Siberia to command the Far Eastern forces.
'There he has been ever since, all through the dangerous years of' the Manchurian conflet. In this post succeeded in strengthening Siberia's defences to. an almost impregnable degree. Here also, once again, he has demonstrated "his qualities of a talented diplomat, a brilliant strategy st, a man with indomitable energy, and great popularity. Him, atone of all Red Marshals, Soviet's foes see as Voroshitoft's. rival.
Tahachevsky on Polish Front year or two ago Russia's danger point was in the Par East. to-day her eyes are oft the western frontiers, where Polish nationalists dream of conquering Russia and Hitler's new Srmles goose-step along their eastern border. The Soviet Marshal in charge of this potential powder box is Michall Tuhachevsky one of the youngest and
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