Word: chengteh
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While grim Japanese moved to crush Jehol in the jaws of a major offensive, short, stout, redoubtable Governor Tang Yulin put on a one-man Chinese rodeo in his yamen at Chengteh, delighted correspondents with Chinese cowboy feats. (Jehol has been called China's "Wild East...
...favorite wife, they alleged, had been kidnapped from Jehol and was being held in Peiping, a hostage of his loyalty, by China's "Young Marshal" Chang Hsuehliang. Setting out from Peiping, U. S. newshawks bumped 100 mi. over awful roads from Peiping to Tang's Capital, Chengteh...
...Lord Tang last week, young Marshal Chang and famed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong who is now "Acting Premier" made the unprecedented move (for Chinese statesmen) of venturing into the threatened province, Jehol. Bumping out from Peiping, risking a Japanese bombing raid on their way, they entered Chengteh through a triumphal arch provided by War Lord Tang...
...Dear me," commented Chengteh's Belgian Catholic Missionary, Father Oscar Conrad, "I don't suppose this place has been so excited since the Empress Dowager was here 72 years...
...troops across the frontier of Jehol. The Chinese claimed to have taken Chinchow, Japanese concentration point between Shanhaikwan and Mukden. Heavy Japanese fire began at Chaoyang near the border. But it will be many weeks before they can scale the mountain passes (defended by 150,000 Chinese) leading to Chengteh...