Word: chefoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Standing for no nonsense. War Lord Han took the field last week with 40,000 picked soldiers to collect the arrears of revenue from Chefoo's Liu who mustered perhaps 30,000 troops, by no means picked...
...June 1929, 15 months before Han became Governor of Shantung. Chefoo was taken by War Lord Liu Chen-nien, who should later have considered himself subordinate to Governor Han of Shantung, Chefoo being merely a Shantung port...
...last summer War Lord Liu was popular with U. S. bluejackets whose ships lay anchored off his port. At the cry (in Chinese) of "The fleet's in!'', smart Liu extorted $100,000 mex. from Chefoo establishments most apt to be patronized by sailors. Pocketing perhaps half this money, Liu nevertheless spent at least $50.000 mex. to improve Chefoo's police force, to push his superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during...
First by train and next by forced marches up Shantung's best motor road, War Lord Han rushed Chefooward, then spread out his forces in an 80-mi. offensive front, aiming to envelop and crush Liu's troops among the mountains of Chefoo...
...Deal. Chefoo, which has benefited so much from War Lord Liu's comparatively enlightened rule, learned that he has "consented to be transferred to some other Chinese province." The disputed revenues go to Governor Han of Shantung, but he does not get Chefoo. It passes into the hands of the so-called North Chinese Navy which has held Tsingtao for some time and belongs to Marshal Chang Jr., son of the late, great Manchurian War Lord Chang...