Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the good offices of Great Britain. Last week, while Britain was busy in the south, 12,000 Moslems streamed out of the Punjab, started north toward Srinagar with the object of dethroning Sir Hari and completing a solid block of Moslem states from Egypt to Central Asia. Near Rajaori, just north of Punjab, they sacked 14 villages, fired houses and post offices. State troopers hastily left Srinagar, while Sir Hari appealed frantically for British succor...
...many a eulogy last week was Owen D. Young's: "Commercial banking, both at home and abroad, had no leader of greater skill or understanding." Died. William Vallandigham Kelley, 70, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co.; of heart disease ; in Chicago. He financed the eastern Asia expedition of the Brothers Roosevelt (Theodore and Kermit), for the Field Museum of Natural History in 1928. Died. Dr. James Gore King McClure, 83, president emeritus of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago, and greatly beloved divine; after a lingering illness; in Lake Forest...
...people outside of Asia know, or care, anything about Mongolia. It is underpopulated, isolated by great mountain ranges. Once an entity, it has been split up. Outer Mongolia, with Soviet help, became an independent Republic in 1924 and is still closely tied to Moscow. But fertile Inner Mongolia is still under Chinese rule. To break this rule is the task General Semenov and his willing Mongol allies have set themselves. That Japan was behind the movement, would dominate the new state if it was formed, not even the Mongol princes took the trouble to deny...
...imperialistic Germany well realized that the rest of Europe had scooped her in collecting vast colonies throughout Africa and Asia. Therefore when two missionaries were providentially slain in Shantung, Germany demanded, and got, for reparation: a 99-year lease on the port of Tsingtao, and many miles of surrounding territory plus the right to build a railroad through Shantung Province. In 1914, Japan's first act as one of the Allies was to besiege Tsingtao. It was defended with extreme gallantry by the German garrison, for the Kaiser had bombastically called it "the jewel of my heart." Japan held...
...Russian officers and highest diplomats, the so-called "brains of the Persian State" sat protected from the bitter cold in a glass-sided box while the rubber-tired sulkies skimmed around the track in the light of electroliers and a crescent moon. At Timoor Tash's side, talking of "Asia for the Asiatics," sat General Budenny who, like the Grand Vizier's own sovereign, was once a Cossack sergeant...