Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into Canton, lately the centre of a tricky revolt against Nanking which cloaked itself in the guise of a Chinese movement to fight Japan, entered last week General Yu Han-mou, newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese...
...Canton jails by General Yu were quantities of the "Blue Shirt" strong-arm men who it is Nanking etiquette to say are not the Generalissimo's spies, agents provocateurs and throat-slitters...
...keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed to Chen's job and rushed back...
This week the troops of Nanking, shooing the Kwangsi troops out of the way, marched into Canton, took it over in the name of the Nationalist Government. The collapse of the great Southwest rebellion was highly discouraging to Japanese, who landed marines near Canton "to protect Japanese lives and property...
...polite League's history had to deal with hecklers in the press box. For ten minutes the Fascists kept up bedlam, until they went down before an entire platoon of Geneva's finest, who yanked them by their coat collars off to jail. Next day the Socialist canton of Geneva expelled them all-some Italian journalists of ten years' standing with families in Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times looked down its stern nose thus: "Nothing...