Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conquered China, as Chiang did, in a great civil war which raged from Canton to Peiping, six major revolts occasion no appalling dismay. If China were really to be pacified the Generalissimo would have to ride off not in six directions but in sixty, for there were at least that many rascally "generals" insurgent throughout China. But life in the swarming cities, Shanghai, Canton, Peiping, Hankow and the capital, Nanking, went toilsomely and safely on. Swart Generalissimo Chiang wisely chooses to ignore all those local ruckuses which do not challenge his central national authority. (Most of them, he has said...
...Canton gave the Council of Generals pause. It is China's fourth largest city and the "Mother of Revolutions." Generalissimo Chiang got his start in Canton under "China's George Washington," the late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen. It was from Canton that Chiang marched north to conquer all China-partly with the aid of Russian and Chinese propagandists trained in Moscow who fomented disunion in his Army's path. Marching on to victory, the Generalissimo paid scant attention for several years to the seeds of Sovietism which sprouted and grew strong among Chinese in his wake...
...arrest of U. S.-born Bert Hall ("General Chan"), onetime instructor to the air forces of China's Nanking and Canton Governments, for swindling a Chinese general out of $10,000 (Mexican) intended as payment for German pistols which never were delivered (TIME, Oct. 30): sentence of two and one-half years to be served in a U. S. penitentiary, imposed by a U. S. extraterritorial court in Shanghai...
Proxy In Canton, China, because Shih Kwangtung could not come from Singapore for his marriage ceremony, the bride's parents selected a handsome rooster to take his place, married...
Died. Jesse Hickman Mellett, 52, three times Mayor of Anderson, Ind., brother of Canton, Ohio's assassinated Publisher Don R. Mellett (TIME, July 26; Aug. 2, 1926); after long illness; in Anderson...