Word: honan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
...toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling of Northern forces looked like the turning point of the war, wagered that Chiang Kai-shek would control not only Shantung but also Honan province in another fortnight...
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, appeared to have captured the Honan airplane base of his enemies by a surprise onslaught of his famed "Big Sword Cavalry...
While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December...