Word: kaies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the arrest and persecution of Wang Ping, the Chinese student leader of the Amalgamated Labor Unions of China, who was first arrested and accused of Communistic utterances by General Hsiao-Lang, the chief of the army opposing the Japanese in Jehel, and then turned over to General Kai-Shek of the Nanking government, who now threatens to execute...
When General (later President) Chiang Kai-shek marched out of Canton in 1926, taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...
...disgusting "Old Fox," Premier Inu-kai who withdrew Japan's naval forces from Shanghai before they had scored a sufficiently decisive victory, is dead-assassinated by Japanese military cadets (TIME, May 23). A few hours after this killing War Minister Araki emerged from 20 minutes of private audience with his Divine Emperor to comment "So far as I can learn the events of today were designed to purify politics...
...hundred Chinese War Lords and Generals sent out telegrams denouncing Peiping's "Young Marshal" Chang for not having sent more troops to Shanhaikwan, proclaimed fervently their own eagerness to fight Japan. Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route...
...frowning moat and was solemnly conducted to awesome Phoenix Hall. Being incombustible, or at least always able to rise from its own ashes, the mythical phoenix is the fiery symbol of Japan's sun-begotten reigning house. Last week when the Son of Heaven actually appeared, Hsieh Kai-shih seemed so flabbergasted by the honor done him that Japanese courtiers had to nudge him at the right moments as he made his speech of thanks for recognition of Manchukuo, then received the dazzling Order of Merit, Grand Cordon, Medallion of the Rising Sun and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom...