Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vicissitudes of last week touching the affairs of that perennial trio of Chinese War Lords, Chang, Feng...
...Chang. Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War Lord of Manchuria," summoned his chief henchmen to Mukden early in the week, and caused them to adopt a resolution declaring that the three Manchurian provinces (Shenpking, Holung-kiang and Kirin) no longer recognize the authority of the so-called "Government of China" at Peking...
...Since Chang is anti-Bolshevik and pro-Japanese, Moscow editors fulminated, although the Soviet Government recently succeeded in making Chang kotow toward it, to the extent of releasing from arrest (TIME, Feb. 1) M. Ivanoff, the Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway...
Since the Tuan Government is notoriously so weak that its pretense of representing "China" is a mockery, M. Tchitcherin's "impossible" demand that it coerce the powerful Chang was regarded as a warning that the U. S. S. R. is seriously considering the employment of the Red Army against the pro-Japanese, anti-Soviet "Manchurian War Lord...
Late and unsubstantiated despatches from Moscow reported that Chang's troops had seized "numerous additional Soviet workers and officials at Harbin." Allegedly Chang imposed a complete censorship upon the local Soviet newspapers, which appeared "with big blank white pages" in protest...