Word: flees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese poetic justice ground a traitor and his wife exceeding small. The traitor was General Kuo Sung-lien, once the most trusted henchman of the great Manchurian Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin. Less than a month ago (TIME, Dec. 7) he mutinously turned against Chang and forced him to flee to Mukden, his capital, there to make a last stand...
Feng, having suffered a severe repulse by the Li forces, issued a proclamation asking for peace on terms highly advantageous to Li. While the ensuing parley was under way, the Feng troops received reinforcements, crept up upon Tientsin, overwhelmed the garrison, and forced General Li to flee to the local Japanese concession in a, motor...
...decides to build a new capital. In the swamps of the Neva it rises. It costs in lives 10,000 horses, 100,000 men. As Peter takes possession, the Swedes attack. Peter beats them at Poltawa and they flee to the Turks. Peter follows, is surrounded, nearly annihilated. Then he and Katharina overcome their enemies. Livonia, Esthonia, Ingria, Karelia. the Ukraine are Peter's. Sweden, Poland, Turkey are humbled...
Throughout the week, Tuan Chi-Jui, head of the impotent Peking Government of China, remained ready to flee from his capital at any moment should Super-Tuchun Feng avail himself of the upset to Chang's power and decide to take personal control of Peking instead of merely dominating it. Feng, however, contented himself with adding a few divisions to the garrison which he maintains at Peking; and called upon Chang to retire to private life, threatening to wipe out his remaining forces...
...TIME, Nov. 3, 1924) and seized control of Peking, with the consent of Chang, his motives even in that apparent act of bad faith are still under dispute. Some observers have actually asserted that Wu, hard pressed by Chang, asked Feng to "betray" him, in order that he might "flee without disgrace" and recoup his forces, as he has recently managed to do (TIME...