Word: chwang
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Basing his opinion on three months' experience fighting with the Chinese National Army, David Chwang, now a student in the Business School, stated yesterday "that the best way of stopping the Japanese infantry is by hand-to-hand battle with bayonets and swords...
...roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately carved open woodwork, broken with old paintings on silk, panels and mirrors. Known as Pi-shu-shan-chwang (mountain lodge for avoiding the heat), it was famed for The Garden of Ten Thousand Trees and a waterfall that gave the illusion of flowing over jade and breaking into a spray of pearls. The Emperor and his court hunted deer and boar in the rolling hills of its great park...
...great show of trampling on their revolutionary banners, and deserted to the Nationalist standard of advancing Marshal Chiang Kaishek. There was absolutely no resistance at Hankow when spruce Marshal Chiang stepped ashore from a Nationalist river gunboat described as the flagship of so-called Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chwang...