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Word: cheh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former Chinese Governor of Chahar, General Sung Cheh-yuan, who was cashiered by Nanking last spring, when he threatened to lead his troops against the advancing Japanese. This demotion caused General Sung abruptly to become pro-Japanese in all externals and last week, by Nanking's appointment, he was the new Commander of the Peiping-Tientsin Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Immediate, Fundamental Change. . . . | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...Province and thereabouts (see map). He has bought openly as many as 10,000 hospital beds at one clip, bought discreetly proportionate supplies of rifles, machine guns, field pieces, battle planes and munitions. For the heads of No. 1 Communist General Chu Teh and No. 2 Communist General Mao Cheh-tung-both Chinese of good family who received military training abroad-he has offered 80,000 silver dollars apiece, or $100,000 if the head is delivered attached to the body. With 300,000 Nanking soldiers in the field and ready to begin the anti-Red drive under Generalissimo Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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