Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sword of Chang hangs over all Manchuria. The luxury of his robber-baron court is set off in opulent relief by the stark barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...
Though Wu and Chang were notorious enemies even before Wu was defeated and forced into temporary eclipse by Chang (TIME...
...both Super-Tuchuns swore brotherly fealty, at Peking, last week and prepared to direct in concert the carrying through of their recently successful campaign against the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, April 5 et seq.), who dominated Peking until its capture by subordinate generals of Chang and Wu (TIME...
Despatches told that Feng's armies held last week, a line stretching roughly from Nankow to Yuchow, thus fending off their mountain sheltered base at Kalgan from the expected attack of Chang and Wu originating at Peking. General Tien Wei-chun was moving from Peking last week upon Nan-kow pass (26 miles northwest) ; and Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan, Wu's principal field commander, was preparing to advance upon Yuchow (100 miles west of Peking...
...established his personal headquarters last week upon an armored train near Peking. Chang, according to his wont, ensconced himself amid urban luxury. Barbarian that he is, he is said to treasure still a cheap Connecticut alarm clock, acquired in his youth under circumstances of good omen. Conferees Swelter. With the approach of Peking's blistering summer the delegates of the nine Washington Treaty Powers, assembled at Peking (TIME, Nov. 2), grew not unnaturally restive last week. The Chang-Wu-fostered Premier of China, Dr. W. W. Yen (TIME, May 10), resigned early in the week, abandoned the farce...