Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China, Chang Tsolin. It was a remarkable fact that while Chiang was busy with his impeachment congress at Nanking the troops of his "enemy," Chang, ceased all activity against him. Not improbably, gold (from whatever source) may be the bond of understanding between Chiang and Chang...
Yellow Magic. To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. As his troop trains rumbled into the province of Honan, little papers by thousands were found strewn along the tracks. When Chang's soldiers read them, they discovered with terror that a mighty brotherhood of magicians, the Red Lances, had imprinted the papers with curses. "Whoso enters Honan to fight her defenders," read the curse, "shall suffer the withdrawal of the protection of his ancestors. Beware...
Before a threat so awful, despatches told, the entire army halted. Frantically young Chang Hsueh-liang telegraphed his father, Chang Tso-lin, to send still more potent magicians from Peking to break the curse. Soon, by special train, these gentry arrived. They advised that each soldier should break the curse against himself individually by tying a small "magic rag" to his rifle and wetting it with "enemy blood...
Reds Raided. Emboldened by this Northern success, War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, ordered his soldiers to enter the grounds of the Soviet Embassy, and to seize all documents and persons in the various subsidiary offices and outbuildings, sparing only the Embassy itself...
This act was, of course, in flagrant violation of diplomatic usage. Chang, however, knew that it would be condoned if not approved by non-Reds throughout the world. He was right. Immediately thereafter the Municipal Council of Occidentals who administer the international city at Shanghai employed "White Russian" mercenary soldiers to picket the Soviet Consulate and search all who left or entered. This, too, was in contravention of international usage., but in most non-Red countries was condoned if not approved. It was expected that translations of the documents seized from the Reds at Peking and Shanghai would amply justify...