Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Outside Canton were assembled, cleared for action, a flotilla of foreign warships. They were there to protect the Customs House which Dr. Sun threatened to seize (TIME...
...Shameen (foreign section of Canton), were five British gunboats, two French and one Portuguese warships. French bluejackets were landed and occupied the post office without resistance. The men were landed there to thwart Dr. Sun in case he decided to resort to force and to protect the foreign population...
...Mechislav Vorovsky at Lausanne (TIME, May 19) and the acquittal of one Conradi, his assassin, the Soviet Government issued instructions to the Russian police: "to revise carefully the lists of Swiss citizens now residing in Soviet territory and to make a separate list of those born in the Swiss Canton of Vaud [where the murder took place]." It was understood that the Government intends to deport all the Swiss from the Canton of Vaud who are living in Russia and all those who have recently entered the country, as a protest against the acquittal of Conradi...
Securely lodged in Canton, Dr. Sun was reported to be on the point of declaring that city a free port and erecting a customs barrier around it. This would, it was pointed out, deprive Peking of 13% of its maritime customs and would thereby weaken the Central Government's already shaky finances. This is evidently part of Dr. Sun's plan to force President Tsao-Kun, against whom he is so bitter (TiME, Oct. 22), out of office...
...Ledger published a despatch dated "Hongkong, Nov. 29", which began: "When news was received of the election of Marshal Tsao Kun as President of China, a meeting of Dr. Sun's Cabinet was held in Canton." Thereupon followed the text of a proclamation issued...