...Azal led the conversation, talking about the war. Ma Chungying was the man to save the Turki world from dstruction. The war, which had been going on for about a year was...'the blooody war which made a desert of Sinkiang from 1931 to 1934.' ...Ma Chungying had been made commander of the Chinese army, but he was a leader of the Chinese Moslems, and he was going to fight on the side of the Turkis against the soldiers of the Chinese governor... the situation was complex.