Word: chuan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chuan-fang, onetime Tuchun of Shanghai, in alliance with Chang Tso-lin and Chang Tsung-chang. His troops recently advanced to the outskirts of Nanking and are at present massed in Kiangsu, south of and contiguous to Shantung...
...Nationalists also girded up their war loins and prepared to run with exceeding swiftness into the fray, thus to aid their ally, Feng, to distract the attention of Chang Tsung-chang and Sun Chuan-fang...
...Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai - beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights...
Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
Since October Chang has been wringing $300,000 a month additional tribute out of Sun Chuan-fang, the comparatively benevolent despot at Shanghai, in payment for not attacking Sun in the rear, while Sun has been defending Shanghai from the Southern Nationalist (Cantonese) Army (TIME...