Word: chefoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is, however, the usual Chinese paradox. Shantung is a maritime province and Han is a model governor but he has never held Shantung's vital seaports, Tsingtao and Chefoo...
Finally there was a brand new civil war in Shantung. Taking the field with 80,000 picked troops, able, honest Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung marched into the hill country near Chefoo, stronghold of General Liu Chen-nien and 30,000 soldiers whom Governor Han considers to be his soldiers. Thus last week the businesses of armament and war were having, at the very least, a baby boom...
Hero of the week was a General Liu Chien-nien (see cut), a lesser war lord who controls the strategic Chefoo area, 100 miles from Tsingtao. For the weeks past he has maintained a delicate neutrality between Northerners and Nationalists. Fortnight ago the Nationalist Government sent Liu Chien-nien rifles and silver dollars. They were gratefully received. The Nationalist Government ordered him to attack the northern armies. Liu Chien-nien refused...