Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortnight ago the armies of the rebellious generals of the southern province of Kwangsi moved against Canton, capital of Kwantung province, rich, commercial seaport of the Nationalist Government. Canton's hasty preparations for defense seemed woefully inadequate. Oracular foreign correspondents took the fall of Canton for granted, foresaw a powerful rebellion against the Nanking government with the city of Canton as a base for the rebels. Such correspondents under estimated Kwantung strategy...
Last week, with the well-equipped Kwangsi armies only 25 miles away, the wily aristocratic Governor of Kwantung, General Chen Ming-chu, sent out a messenger to the Kwangsi rebels. Would the honorable enemy cease its advance on defenseless Canton in return for a sub stantial cash award? The practical-minded Kwangsi generals thought they would, but considering their favorable tactical position, the ransom must be a heavy...
Engaged. Henry H. Timken Jr., of Canton, Ohio, son of the roller-bearing man; to Miss Marsha Key Allen, Manhattan socialite...
...July 1926, in Canton, Ohio, Don R. Mellett, young editor of James M. Cox's Canton News, was shot down in his back yard one evening as he was putting his car away. It was vengeance from the underworld, against which Mellett had been crusading in his newspaper. The journalistic world rang with the news. The U. S. press was not content that two of Editor Mellett's murderers should be given life sentences and two condemned to 20 years in prison. At the suggestion of a journalist, Editor & Publisher, trade weekly of the Press, started a campaign...
Editor Pew had a report to make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death...