Word: kuo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command to Kuo Lao-man was his last message. Next day Chinese Boxers, uprising, slew him foully...
...Today, the Canton Progressives, or Nationalists, whose political driving force is the Kuo-Min-Tang or 'People's Party', are in possession of nearly a third of China. They have succeeded more than any previous ruling group in subordinating the military to the civil departments. Their general, Chiang Kai-shek has proved himself a tactician and politician of rare ability. He has unified a 'solid South' to combat the Northern militarists and to espouse the cause of reform...
Suddenly last week the tables turned with lightning celerity. One morning Kuo was reported on the point of utterly routing the forces of Chang near Hsin-min-fu. A few hours later the Kuo forces crumpled and fled before the at length fully exerted might of Chang...
...General Kuo and his wife hastily disguised themselves as coolies and attempted to hide in a cellar. There they were seized by General Yang, a lieutenant of Super-Tuchun Chang. General Kuo's wife attempted to escape and was instantly and mercifully shot dead. For Kuo remained a harder fate. He watched while his dead wife's arms and head were cut off. Then his own legs were hacked from his body and as he swooned he was decapitated...
Super-Tuchun Chang completed his revenge by ordering that the remains of General Kuo and his wife should be paraded about Mukden, spitted upon sharpened poles. At length they were deposited upon the grave of one of Chang's faithful generals, who was killed by Kuo at the inception of the mutiny. Late despatches reported that General Kuo is survived by four widows, since only his fifth and favorite wife fell into the hands of Chang. Curiously enough, Super-Tuchun Chang's fifth wife gave birth to a child on the eve of the battle...