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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chefoo-where the hair nets come from -was the scene of lively doings last week. Away from this flourishing city in the Yellow Sea vamoosed its rightful defender, General Liu Chen-nien; and victoriously in marched dread Marshal Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, March 7, 1927). Within an hour Chefoo's terrified Chinese Chamber of Commerce had presented the marshal with $100,000 spot cash gold, in return for his promise not to issue his favorite order, "Loot...
...Chang of Shantung. The big bad news of last week was that detested and notorious Chang Tsung-Chang, onetime rapacious war lord of Shantung was back in his old province and battling for possession of it with 26,000 ragged, nondescript troops...
Chinese thought and devoutly hoped they had seen the last of Chang Tsung-Chang and his fat well-chewed cigars when the Nationalist armies chased him into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 24), after which he settled down in the Japanese city of Dairen (near Port Arthur) with his 35 women and foreign bank deposits of $10,000,000 (TIME...
Last week Chang chartered a tramp steamer and stepped aboard her at Dairen, with 250 hired soldiers of fortune including the "White Russian" General Ataman Seminov. Without the slightest hindrance from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...
...Chang's landing and the consolidation of his forces could not be prevented by the Nationalists, because he had put in at a point on the Shantung peninsula which is fenced off from the rest of China by an expeditionary force of Japanese marines. These tough sliteyes have been where they are a long time, and, as in Nicaragua, "the purpose of the Marines is to protect lives and property," according to the Imperial Government at Tokyo. During the week only one small body of 7,000 Nationalist troops were able to maneuver around the Japanese within striking distance...