Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention that since the attempt to establish a republic 14 years ago there have been 8 presidents or chief executives, 42 cabinets with a continuously changing membership, and 25 ministers of justice. The last president, Tsao Kun, was locked up in Peking from December, 1924, to April, 1926, because it was said he bought his office-yet no formal charge was ever made against him and he was never brought to trial. He was released when the armies of Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin entered Peking on Apr. 10, 1926. On that day the chief executive, Tuan...
...collecting from the Peking-Hankow Railroad $1,000,000 per month. The total earnings of the road are $1,500,000 and the payroll $650,000 per month. It is obvious the employes cannot be paid-and they had not been for several months. Another dominant War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, is receiving the revenue of the Peking-Mukden Railroad...
Though U. S. newsorgans headlined THOMPSON NEAR DEATH, it is exceedingly probable that the Chinese dynamiters could under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central...
...Eclipsed? Super-Tuchun Sun Chuan-feng of Shanghai, who only last spring proclaimed the Yangtze Valley an independent state in vassalage to himself, found his subordinates deserting to Chang Kai-shek in such numbers last week that even his supremacy in Shanghai seemed threatened. The armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed...
...launched last week by agitators in the pay of the Cantonese who were only checked when Major V. K. Ting of Shanghai discovered their plot and ordered cut the railway over which they expected to receive re-enforcements. These developments, adding to the fear of an immediate onslaught by Chang Kaishek, left foreigners and Chinese alike terror-stricken in Shanghai...