Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Peking (Japanese) and Hong Kong (neutral) came reports that last month Communist Generalissimo Mao Tse-tung charged the central authorities with failing to set up democratic government in China, with having arrested a Communist officer without provocation, with having actually fought a three-day battle against the Communists when the Japanese were less than 100 miles away...
...short-wave broadcast from Tokyo last week reported new conflict: Some fighting in Kansu Province, Communist demands for more Central Government funds, a conference of Communist leaders at Yenan headed by the second-in-command, Chu Teh, to discuss the contingency of open warfare with Chungking...
Certain it is that for some time the famed Eighth Route Army has been an uneasy fieldfellow with the Central Armies. Communists scorn the elegant-mannered, fancy-uniformed officers of Whampoa Military Academy (founded by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek); the Government resents the exaggerated publicity the simple-living, peasant-loving, estate-looting Communist guerrillas have had. Government soldiers get $7.50 to $9 (Chinese) per month; Communist soldiers get $1. The Government charges that the Communists promised to limit their Army to some 45,000 men, but have recruited over 100,000. Communists charge that the Government promised a monthly subsidy...
...York Central, rosy with the rush of shipping business that has brought the flush of health to many a wan railroad cheek, last week announced a September net of $3,120,096, reported that fat business had cut its 1939 deficit to 90? a common share, compared with $3.32 for the first nine months of 1938. That day New York Central, a fast mover in a normally lively market, stood at 20¼. Next day it was down to 20, the following day to 19¾. Last week it closed...
...Three dances on one ticket" will be the theme of tonight's combination dance given by Leverett, Winthrop, and Eliot Houses. The affair is under the direction of a central committee composed of Mason Fernald '40, Henry A. Burgess '40, and Robert J. Glazer...