Word: hai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because several news stories of the year loomed so large, the lists were more alike than usual. All three services named the Bonus Army's invasion of Washington, the Democratic landslide, the Sino-Japanese struggle (particularly the battle of Shang-hai), the collapse of the Insull and Kreuger properties, the Massie case in Honolulu...
Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...
...182The Chinese Eastern Railway, vital link in the Trans-Siberian route between China and Europe, was cut last week 65 miles south of Harbin, Manchuria by 3,000 Chinese soldiers under General Li Hai-tsing. Ripping up the railway tracks, tearing down telegraph wires the Chinese waited until a train from Harbin chuffed into their clutches. They looted and dispersed before Japanese troops rushed on the scene. Other Chinese troops defied Japanese authority in Manchuria by setting three minor railway stations afire and gutting the city of Suifenho (reported loss...
...Egged by Japanese General Honjo, now seeking to set up a puppet Chinese regime in Manchuria, puppet Chinese General Chang Hai-peng advanced last week upon Tsitsihar, held by loyal Chinese General Ma Chan-shan who offered peacefully to give up the old walled town...
...trying to realize the trouble in the South, even more violent war broke out to the northward. The "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang and Northern Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping hospital, officially with pneumonia...