Word: chang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London engineering firm of Bewick, Moreing & Cox of which he later became a partner. In detail his "taking" of the Kaiping coal mines in China is described, together with the London law suit in which an equity court found against his firm and in favor of Mandarin Chang. Tin enterprises in Nigeria, oil ventures in Siberia and Peru, gold digging in the Klondike, lead and silver mining in Burma-all are set forth as "stock deals" in which Mr. Hoover profited while outside shareholders were losing their shirts. The whole book is written in a vicious insinuating style with rhetorical...
...Lord Abdicates. In Peiping (once Peking), just outside the Great Wall, Japan's "threatened offensive broke down last week the morale of young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Japan forced out of Manchuria, his ancestral realm, last September. Despairingly Young Chang abdicated his Manchurian rights in favor of "Old Uncle" Chang Tso-hsiang...
...Uncle is no relation whatever to the young War Lord, but served right well his late, great father, War Lord Chang Tsolin, who began life as a mere coolie, took up the profession of banditry, and founded in Manchuria a quite illegal but practically effective Rule of the House of Chang...
...Manchuria knew such peace and prosperity as never before. The Young Marshal believes that the bombs which killed his father were Japanese (TIME, June 11, 1928). He nurses an implacable hatred for Nippon. Last week Old Uncle, a family retainer who has outgrown and succeeded the House of Chang, loomed as likely to make every effort to meet Japanese half way and try to rule Manchuria in the same manner Old Marshal...
...Japanese lives, 3,000 Chinese) the Japanese forces in Manchuria under General Shigeru Honjo controlled all three Manchurian provincial capitals, Mukden (General Honjo's base) Kirin and nese had already dug in by establishing puppet Chinese governments at Mukden and Kirin. Last week they established Chinese Puppet Chang Chin-hui at Tsitsihar. To demonstrate the independence of these Chinese regimes General Honjo called attention to the fact that the Chinese Government of Southern Manchuria at Mukden had just adopted a budget of their own diligent devising. When correspondents asked the puppet Chinese for a copy of this budget they...