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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their occupation of Tiensin, the Manchurian troops under the rebellious Chang have won a decided advantage in the first phase of their struggle with the Peking government. This development was foreshadowed last week when the national troops acceded to the ultimatum of the foreign powers and lifted their defensive blockade on the river Chang was thus enabled to resume his advance and his adversaries were forced to withdraw before his superior forces...
...ascendancy in Manchuria so that she may develop her ports in the northern Pacific, and this action has undoubtedly re-awakened her former animosity. Prospects of a Russo-China alliance with a war of revenge against Japan have once more become threatening. And the European powers, by indirectly aiding Chang in the Tiensin crisis, have shown that they are ready to enter a defensive alliance with Japan in order to preserve their Chinese commercial interests...
...Taku at the mouth of the river. Merrily they blazed away at all ships which tried to enter it-at many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...
...officer, one General Chang [not Chang Tso-lin], replied to an insinuation that China is ruining herself by civil wars: "I think your American Revolution was a sort of civil war, wasn't it? But you don't criticise Washington now for ruining his country...
...What territory does General Chang propose to make an independent country...