Word: kiang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miles of trenches and barbed wire entanglements, which the rebels had constructed to defend Hankow (TIME, April 8), were simply abandoned, as a half-dozen rebel "Generals" absconded from their commands and fled for their lives across the sluggish Yangtze-kiang. Meanwhile other "Generals" made a great show of trampling on their revolutionary banners, and deserted to the Nationalist standard of advancing Marshal Chiang Kaishek. There was absolutely no resistance at Hankow when spruce Marshal Chiang stepped ashore from a Nationalist river gunboat described as the flagship of so-called Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chwang...
...that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north bank of the Yang-tze-kiang, last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage in prolonged dickering and skirmishing. Nonetheless he stood forth, last week, more clearly than ever as the Strong Man of modern...
...called Wuhan cities are those centering about Hankow, up river on the mighty Yangtze-kiang, while down river is the Chinese capital of Nanking, against the authority of whose President Chiang Kai-shek (see above) the Wuhan cities are in revolt. Military operations last week amounted to little more than the preliminary convergence of three Nanking Nationalist armies upon Hankow, where the Wuhan generals entrenched themselves and strung barbed wire...
...imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi is the great Yangtze-Kiang...
...From Baltimore, Md., came news that the Religious Society of Friends were alarmed over "vice conditions . . . widespread disease and moral degradation," to which they had heard U. S. sailors were exposed on the Yangtse Kiang (river), China. President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur were asked to investigate...