Word: kwangsi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notorious Chen Yu-jen (Eugene Chen), long the Communistically inclined stormy petrel of South China politics. As War Minister the new state has General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army in its deathless defense of Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Governor Li Chai-sum of Kwangsi Province was styled the "Chairman" (President) of the new Government but Chinese called him a mere front for Red Eugene Chen...
Governor Liu Huan-yen of Kwangsi Province went out for a stroll in his garden one evening last week, followed as usual by his bodyguard. As the Governor stooped to admire the moonlike beauty of a lotus blossom, a shot rang out. Down he crumpled in the garden path mortally wounded, died later in hospital...