Word: keng
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japan and the Nanking Government angled for the war lords of North China with counter bribes, appeals and threats. Japan appeared to land two at once. Sung Cheh-yuan, Chinese commandant of the Peiping and Tientsin garrisons, and Yin Ju-keng, commissioner of the demilitarized zone in North China, who obligingly sent out a general telegram demanding autonomy for North China. Doubtful Japanese catches were Chahar's Governor Hsiao Chen-yung and Suiyuan's Governor Fu Tso-yi. The Chinese Government meanwhile appeared to land Shang Chen, Governor of Hopei. It went on angling hopefully...
...recent troubled years Nora Waln has kept green her friendship with the Lin family. When she wrote her book about them she got bilingual Yeng-peng to read it to the assembled family, asked their permission to publish it. The 18-day reading completed, permission was granted. Said Uncle Keng-lin: "It is an achievement for a talkative woman to have written so many pages...