Word: hsien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revered Hsien-sheng...
Flying Tactics. In Nanking with grandiose Oriental flourishes arrived Comrade Chin Pang-hsien, former Communist Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government whose forces are now merged with those of the Chinese Government. "Our valiant Communist forces, now comprising the 8th Route Army of Nanking won two great battles last week in Shansi Province!" announced Chin. "They captured an entire Japanese battalion, including the commander, 60 truckloads of ammunition and one heavy, mounted gun with 2,000 projectiles. The Japanese lines crumbled under the swift, surprising blow ! More than 1,000 Japanese were killed and 10,000 Mongol and Japanese troops...
Last week Nanking's Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek got a telegram from Inner Mongolia that cheered him. It purported to be from one Yun Chih-hsien, who claimed that he was leading a great rebellion against Prince Te. "My men are patriots," Yun trumpeted, "and absolutely opposed to Prince Te's pro-Japanese policy." This might have meant much or nothing, but one thing Premier Chiang read plainly between the lines of the telegram: There would be no Inner Mongol rebellion unless Nanking forked out some cash...
...Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial bombing gave evidence of broken spirit. . . . Air raids at Hsi Feng Kou and again at Chi Hsien gave tragic proof of the nonsanctity of hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing...
...place called Tu Mu (near Huai Lai-hsien) they waited five hours for a train only to find it a freight bursting with rebel soldiers retreating before the influx of troops from Manchuria. Minister Johnson climbed aboard, "rode the rods" to Kalgan, kept the soldiers in high Chinese glee by translating some of his more successful U. S. anecdotes...