Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, a little man tugged delightedly at his large ears-a sign that he was greatly pleased, puzzled or vexed. He was the great Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, the friend of Japan, the implacable foe of Soviet Russia, overlord by right of might throughout all Manchuria. He was pleased because his son, General Chang Hsueh-liang, had just entered Peking at the head of a victorious army...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
From Mukden, Super -Tuchun Chang Tso-lin telegraphed a demand that the Soviet Ambassador to China, M. Karakhan, should immediately quit Peking...
General Lu Chunglin, commander of the Feng troops, thereupon tried the old trick of offering to share Peking with Wu, if the latter would abandon Chang. The week passed while these ticklish negotiations were in progress. Late despatches reported that Wu had refused to listen to Lu; and that the latter, having given up hope of holding Peking, was rapidly withdrawing all the Feng armies to their great northern base, Kalgan...
Scientist Bombed. When two of Chang's airplanes flew over Peking early in the week, dropping bombs at random, their pilots little suspected that one bomb exploded within 20 feet of Roy Chapman Andrews, discoverer of the first dinosaur eggs known to moderns, chief of the American Museum of Natural History's division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia...