Word: banditland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them to leave by motor truck through Banditland or perhaps by airplane. Meanwhile huge U. S.-built Nanking Government planes, each capable of taking out a score of persons, flew back & forth between Nanking and Sian, each carrying one or two Chinese officers of low rank supposedly entrusted with the usual bribe money indispensable to settling a Chinese...
Seething with guerrilla warfare, Manchuria became Banditland in earnest last week. Civilian passenger and freight traffic was suspended on the Chinese Eastern, vital link in the railways that connect China with Europe. Among refugees pouring into Harbin, chief city on the Chinese Eastern, was Herr Kapitan Roland Strunk, grizzled veteran of the Imperial German Army...
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