Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully distinguished from his nominal overlord, the great Chang Tso-lin, "Chang of Manchuria...
...General Li Pao-chang, Shanghai Commissioner of Defense, continued his attempts to break the general strike (TIME, Feb. 28) by ordering soldiers to march about the streets, cutting off the heads of alleged strikers and setting up these gory warnings upon poles...
...After five days of this wanton decapitation General Li Pao-chang posted up a bland proclamation: "I am touched by the numerous executions by my subordinates. They were prompted thereto by my orders to execute on the spot, without question and without trial. This order I now rescind...
...Britons arriving at Shanghai from the North, last week, told how the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin recently sat in at a Mah Jong game at Peking for 37 consecutive hours, tired out three sets of opponents, and finished with approximately the same sum with which he had sat down to play. For a week thereafter, he was unapproachable, ordered cut off the heads of two of his own officers for the usually insignificant offense of forcing their way into a Peking theatre without paying for seats...
...When the new War Lord of Shanghai, Chang Tsung-chang (see above) began to pour his troops into the city last week, the British landed 5,000 troops and encamped them two miles West of Shanghai ready for any emergency. Eleven thousand more British troops were aboard ships in the harbor, as were 3,000 U. S. marines and 600 Japanese troops...