Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese note. Second it stated its determination to consider that the Sino-Japanese treaty continues in force (although the expiration date is two years past) by virtue of an ambiguous automatic renewal clause. Third, it succeeded in breaking off an arrangement whereby the young Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-liang, had agreed, last week to place himself in subordinate alliance with the Nationalists. Lastly, Chang was not only compelled by the Japanese to break his agreement, but was detained in his own capital, Mukden, by Japanese troops who clamped a censorship upon all means of communication. At this point...
...capable young Chinaman called by fawning flatterers "The Perfect Soldier" admitted last week, after 17 days of prudent concealment, the death of his father, Chang Tso-lin, the great War Lord of Manchuria, who was bombed after evacuating Peking (TIME, June...
...seventeen days served to enable Son & Heir Chang Hsueh-liang to consolidate his position with apparent success, so that last week he proclaimed himself War Lord at Mukden, Manchuria, and admitted that he had inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure...
...182.Luckless Chinese businessmen of Tientsin were "squeezed" by Chang Tsung-chang, last week, for over $300,000-a bribe which this Super-Brigand shamelessly exacted with threats that if it were not paid he would sack the city before evacuating...
...confused with and not related to: 1) The great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, recently dictator at Peking, subsequently bombed in Mukden, Manchuria, and rumored to have died last week; or 2) Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the War Lord, and superior officer of Marshal Chang Tsung-chang...