"POOR LEADERSHIP"
CHIANG BLAMES HIMSELF
LONDON, December 37. The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times" says that Chang Sueh-liang, on arriving at Nanking, declared that he was ready to accept punishment, however severe. He wrote a letter to Chiang Kia-shek abjectly describing himself as a "surly, unpolished, rustic, impudent lawbreaker who has committed a great crime." In a statement, General Chiang Kaishek said that everything must await the decisions of the Nanking Government, but he would recommend leniency for Chang. "Through poor leadership I, as commander-in-chief, must hold myself responsible for an incident which makes my heart ache." A Tokio message says that Japan fears that the settlement is due to a compromise which is probably partly anti-Japanese. Chiang Wei-ko, son of Chiang Kaishek, in Berlin, received word of the release of his father with tears and entered more wholeheartedly into the Christmas celebrations at the home of the German nobleman who is his host and mentor at Berlin.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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