Word: hunan
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...others' eyes and innards. Meanwhile the passing mandarin smiles and coolies stop to widen yellow grins. Thus loom the ingrained traits which made it possible, last week, for certain Chinese irregulars of heathen persuasion to massacre with fiendish cruelty the Roman Catholic natives who once populated Leiyang in Hunan Province...
...half of the Chinese Republic is now controlled by our Communal armies which are supreme in the provinces of Kwantung, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Hunan, Szechwan, Hupeh and Kansu, with part control of Honan and Shensi provinces...
...south, the Bolshevist Cantonese Government launched a vigorous offensive against Hunan Province, a chief basic ally of Wu. He, co-victorious with Chang in the north, hastened 1,000 miles southward to defend what may loosely be called his "rear guard...
...thousand to a quarter of a million. Those Chinese against the move were terrorized into submission. All Chinese were exhorted to "assassinate foreign police," "assassinate foreigners connected with the law courts." The general situation grew worse as each day passed. The strike spread to Changsha and Nanking, capitals of Hunan and Kiangsu. Sniping tactics were bgeun. Officials from Peking arrived, opened a conference with the Chinese and foreign authorities. Canton. The situation at Canton began with sympathy parades for the Shanghai strikers. Threats against the foreign population at Canton and Hong-Kong were heard. Foreign troops were landed...
Disturbances of greater or lesser importance were reported from Szechwan, Canton, Hunan and Manchuria, where considerable friction over the Chinese Eastern Railway between Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian Tuchun and co-dictator of the Peking Government, and the Bolsheviki was in progress...