Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fronts, the Nationalist Government of slender President Chiang Kai-shek teetered perilously on catastrophe's brink last week, then swung back to safety. Chief stabilizer was a high and bloody victory over the rebellious "Ironsides" divisions of General Chang Fa-K'uei in his attempt to capture Canton...
Trustworthy despatches announced the complete destruction of an entire "Ironsides" brigade, 2,000 rebel casualties. 7,000 rebels captured and disarmed, and the flight northward of Chang Fa-K'uei himself. Swollen bodies floating like logwood down to Canton bore mute corroboration...
...this latest of his canvasses, Stanford spreads the New York and Canton of the 18th and the long, arduous miles of water between the two before the building of the Panama Canal and the coming of steam changed these miles hardly less than Canton and New York have changed since those early days of the last century...
Terror and chaos were worst in the far southern city of Canton. Originally this was the bailiwick of President Chiang Kai-Shek, and from it he sallied, three years ago, at the head of the Nationalist Army which proceeded to conquer all China (TIME, April 5, 1926, et seq.). Last week General Ho Ying-ching, whom President Chiang had sent to defend Canton, found himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above...
Aged 49, married, father of two, Senator McCulloch resides at Canton, is frequently likened by sentimentalists to President William McKinley, long a Canton resident and buried there. For six years (1915-21) Senator McCulloch served in the House. This year he has been chairman of the State Utilities Commission. Quiet in manner, personable in looks, regular in his Republicanism, Senator McCulloch was chosen on a pledge to support "Hoover policies" in the Senate...