Word: cheng
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself in an embarrassing position. Having virtually granted Japan belligerent rights in China in return for the privilege of discussing the Tientsin issue in Tokyo, he last week gave way on the point which originally caused the Japanese Army to blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese who have sold...
...middle Yangtze Valley and the near exhaustion of Chinese finances (last week the Chinese Government placed restrictions on imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council, one of the central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand man to the Generalissimo. Said he: "Before 1941 Japan will be begging for peace." The General's rosy picture was painted from numerous facts, figures, estimates, generalizations gathered and made...
Surrounded? When Cheng Shi-kang, Chinese official of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot to death in a movie theatre in the British Concession during the bang-bang scenes of the motion picture Gunga Din, Japanese demanded that British authorities hand over four suspected Chinese. British, claiming lack of evidence, refused. Promptly Japanese hinted they would make a "test case." Japanese companies began removing their supplies from the British and French Concessions which Japanese authorities threatened to surround, isolate from the world...
...recipienin are Te-k'un Cheng 1G, of Kulangan, Amoy, China; John IL, Cox 1G, of Naugatuck, Cohn.; James It, Hightower 2G, of Canton, China; Yueh-hwa Lin 2G, of Foochow, China; Bu-yu Teng 1G, of Hunan, China; and Arthur F. Wright 2G, of Portland...
...Hopeh, an Associated Press correspondent interviewed the talented Chinese guerrilla leader, General Lu Cheng-tsao...