Word: chen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...
...Chen, furious at being cheated of the graft he had expected to get as Governor, got out his short, sharp Chinese war hatchet last week. While Li quaffed rice whiskey and quaked at his friends' jokes, Chen in the flowing robes and silk slippers of a Privy Councilor approached noiselessly from the rear. Eyewitnesses saw only a flash of steel, a gush of blood. Quick as a snake's tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland...
Crossing the street to another restaurant Chen ordered a 26-course dinner, ate it slowly and with relish while Japanese found no answer to the question, "Can we arrest a Privy Councilor...
...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...
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...