Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vicissitudes. A year ago he was gathering strength in the Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...
...hundred thousand Chinese drew taut their belts last week, faced starvation with what fortitude they might. For three weeks they had been besieged in the walled city of Wuchang. Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the Cantonese Communist War Lord had ringed them round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...
...Kuyuin Wellington Koo, famed "political handyman of China," sometime Chinese plenipotentiary to the principal Occidental powers and conferences during the last generation, was commanded by Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and Peking, to form a Cabinet...
Wuchang, a rich and potent city just across the river from Hankow, held out against Chang last week, though the siege which he laid to it reduced the inhabitants (including 21 U. S. citizens) to a state bordering on famine...
...Cantonese Chang puffed his vast and sudden conquests last week to extravagant and imaginary proportions in a communiqu...