Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advanced toward the British quarter. A year and a half ago a similar mob was fired on and dispersed for doing the same at Shanghai (TIME, June 15, 1925 et seq.). But a year is a year. Then the Canton National- ists were impotent. Today they hold half China. Therefore the British marines who stood with fixed bayonets to guard the British quarter received the command: "Under no circumstances fire...
...China the yellow men have hewn the white man's wood, drawn his water and emptied out his slops. Only recently have Chinese begun collectively to realize that they need do these chores only as long as they wish. The Chinese Nationalist movement has surged up from Canton across half China (TIME, Dec. 13); and last week the Chinaman's reluctance to go on emptying out slops indefinitely crystallized in a grave incident at Hankow,± "Chicago of China...
...arms in September; 2) took unofficial cognizance of a statement by Chu Chao-hsin that as the representative of the Peking Government of China he no longer considers himself the representative of China as a whole, since more than half the country is now in the control of the Canton Government...
Such a division of China would of course arouse U.S. opposition as contravening the Washington treaties. Moreover the Cantonese displayed last week a wise reluctance toward accepting British overtures. Russia has backed Canton till now; and the friendship of the British Lion must not be bought by incurring the displeasure of the Russian Bear. The aim of the Cantonese is to free China from bondage to the Powers, and their prudent leaders do not welcome too much British "protection...
...ever intends to go to Peking at all. Next day the press of Shanghai, quick to take a hint, sadly urged its readers to "make the best of the fact that Great Britain is eventually going to recognize the Cantonese Government at Wuchang." Meanwhile from Canton there set out Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb. 1912), famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow...