Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, with his usual good fortune, happened to be 750 miles away in Canton and so did not immediately have to do or say anything in rebuttal to the Japanese. "My God, my God - this is terrible!" cried Chinese officials, while Cabinet members piled into planes, flew to Christian Premier Chiang, persuaded him to fly with them back to Nanking, his Capital...
...Canton, Ohio...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Hollis 11. Luncheon and Field Day at Hoosic Whisick Club in Canton, at 1.30. Dinner at Harvard Club, of Boston at 7.30 P. M. Fri.--Headquarters, Hollis 11. Class Spread in Hollis...
...South China after three months of the most ferocious verbal strife between the Nanking Government and Kwangsi Province, with a formal military ultimatum being issued every few days by Premier Chiang to the Kwangsi generals or vice versa, sudden peace came this week. Instead of Generalissimo Chiang arriving in Canton with overwhelming force to master Kwangsi, he persuaded Kwangsi General Li Tsung-Jen to assume the office of Pacification Commissioner of Kwangsi under instructions from Nanking to pacify himself thoroughly and send no more ultimatums. Only logical assumption was that Li had finally got out of Chiang the bribe running...
...original contract for the Canton-Hankow Railway was let by the Imperial Manchu Government in 1898 to American...