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Roots has just returned to Cambridge from his home in Hankow, China, in order to attend the Episcopal Theological School. He is a former CRIMSON editor and has been connected with instruction work in Chinese schools during the past year. He spent the last summer, in Peking and Canton, the respective centers of the warring factions and returned through Soviet Russia to this country...
...Cantonese carried on his policies. Since Sun Yat-Sen's death, the Southern faction has succeeded in forging their own province into the only real government in China, and two months ago their Revolutionary Army captured by force of arms the three great industrial cities of Central China--Hankow, Hanyang, and Wuchang...
...When I left China I was reliably informed that Wu Pei-fu [since defeated and eclipsed] was collecting from the Peking-Hankow Railroad $1,000,000 per month. The total earnings of the road are $1,500,000 and the payroll $650,000 per month. It is obvious the employes cannot be paid-and they had not been for several months. Another dominant War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, is receiving the revenue of the Peking-Mukden Railroad...
Chinese celebrated throughout the World last week the "Double Ten Festival," "the tenth day of the tenth month," the day on which a bomb exploded in Hankow fifteen years...
...army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade...