Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Already the notorious General Chang Tsung-chang has seized foodstuffs sent to relieve the spreading famine in Shantung and Chihli. The "War Lords" have, more over, complete command of the railways and canals, thus increasing the difficulty of getting U. S. food shipments through intact to starving civilian Chinese. In such circumstances famine relief can be only a desperate stop-gap measure, which must try to save simply "as many lives as possible" until China settles down politically, a process sure to require many heart-breaking years...
...Chang Tso-lin, supreme at Peking and throughout Manchuria and North China, called a conference of all his generals, last week, to harangue and inspire them with suitable zeal for the Spring campaigns of civil...
...small number, even when compared to China's estimated population: 319,000,000. Last week Occidental charities appealed for funds wherewith to appease 10,000,000 stomachs in western Shantung and southern Chihli, where the crops have failed. Utter despair looms from the fact that rapacious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, odious despot of Shantung, has already seized and will continue to seize for his troops a lion's share of all food despatched to those starving...
...Money has grown sufficiently plentiful in Tokyo so that large issues of securities are again being placed there, notably the recent Osaka Municipal Loan; 3) Tourist spending in Japan is on the boom; 4) Japanese interests in Manchuria are prospering under the firm if iniquitous rule of Marshal Chang...
...Russia. Their famed Chiang Kaishek, onetime Nationalist generalissimo and conqueror of half China said: "I intend to exert my full strength to bring peace within the Nationalist territories in order to enable the re-oranization of the Nationalist government and provide for the active resumption of warfare against Marshal Chang Tso-lin [Dictator of North China], who must be eliminated before China will become peaceful...