Word: chow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buffalo. Two years ago Mayor Francis Xavier Schwab's chow dog bit Jane Gunther, his little granddaughter. Mrs. Theresa Gunther, the Mayor's daughter and Jane's mother, indignantly demanded the dog's death. Mayor Schwab refused. The family breach thus opened figured in last week's election. Last week Charles Roesch was actively aided by Mrs. Gunther in turning her father out of office...
...grand offensive." Secondly, he wired that his armies would "sit composedly and starve the rebels out." Within 48 hours, and without previous warning, the President's field headquarters radioed: "The dead are piled mountain high. We have recaptured Mihsien" (25 miles from the vital rail junction Cheng-chow...
Last May, Mohammedan villagers in the Tao-chow-ting district of Kansu province rebelled against omnivorous Chinese tax-gatherers, rioted, killed 700 Chinese women and children...
Last July two divisions of ragged Nationalist troops swept through Tao-chow-ting on shaggy Chinese horses, burning, shooting. Three thousand fear-crazed Mohammedans were killed. Hundreds of other Moslems, fleeing along the Hsiat-sang valley toward Tibet were shot down by Tibetan frontier guards...
...August the governor of Kansu declared an amnesty. A long and dusty caravan of Mohammedans flocked back to their homes in Tao-chow-ting. At the city gates fur-hatted sentries with long Russian rifles turned all the men from 15 to 50 aside, ordered them to go to a distant field where they would be given food for their families. At the field hidden machine guns leaped, sparked and rattled. Three thousand men milled like sheep, were shot down in their tracks. Terrified Moslem women, hearing the gunfire, rushed from the city gates, hysterically committed suicide by the bleeding...