Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Anxious as was Russia for the C. E. R., last week, was Japan, China's other neighbor on the left, for her South Manchuria Railway which cuts north from the great Japanese port of Dairen to Changchun, where it connects with the C. E. R. Ingeniously wangled from Russia after the Russo-Japanese War, the S. M. R. is today worth $220,000,000, keeps the Japanese Colony of Korea fed with Manchurian wheat and soya beans. Its 700 miles of track are guarded by 20,000 soldiers against just such an attack as last week befell...
...hugest, most lavishly gorgeous mansion in Dairen-near Port Arthur on the Yellow Sea-contains 35 pleasingly proportioned young women of assorted races, with their servants. Last week these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called...
...years ago as "Chang of Shantung" he wrung more than ten million dollars from its hapless people. When driven out by the Chinese Nationalists (TIME, Sept. 24), he absconded with women and loot to Dairen, bought the hugest house, made it huger, and tried to settle down with 30 pleasingly proportioned young females of assorted races. It was no use-too much of a good thing-and grizzled Marshal Chang sailed off conquistadoring...
...Imperial Japanese Government, hitherto friendly to Daddy Chang, announced at this juncture that he would not be allowed to re-enter Dairen. When this news reached the hugeous mansion, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan succumbed to hysterics. Chang's 34 other women-mostly Orientals-had all the blinds of the house drawn, waited...
Last week Chang chartered a tramp steamer and stepped aboard her at Dairen, with 250 hired soldiers of fortune including the "White Russian" General Ataman Seminov. Without the slightest hindrance from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...