Word: kwangtung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happiest dream of a Chinese is of China fighting Japan and winning. Last month hotheaded southern warlords of Kwangtung and Kwangsi Provinces notified Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek that he must either declare war at once on Japan or be prepared to stop their armies from marching northward, in the general direction of Japan, the immediate direction of Chiang's capital at Nanking. What looked to the Chinese masses like the long-awaited war with Japan was soon revealed to be just plain old-fashioned civil war, as Chiang's Press asserted that the ostensibly anti-Japanese Southerners...
...South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed to Chen's job and rushed back to his First Army on the northern Kwangtung border. There he wheeled his army about, marched towards Canton to take over...
...convened, the Chinese Parliament faced challenging demands from South-west China that the Nanking Government gather all its strength and fight Japan as best it can. These demands have been keynoted by the provincial leaders of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, who have even marched their armies into warily rebellious contact with those of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME, June 22). Last week Nanking split the Kwangtung warlords by the usual Chinese financial method. Kwangtung's No. 2 warlord General Yu Han-mou and nine battle planes landed in Nanking. Whereupon Chiang's parliament boldly dissolved the rebellious Kwangtung Government, named General...
...fortnight, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa learned he could make a U. S. lecture tour only if accompanied by a doctor or nurse to prevent his spreading trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash and antiseptics...
Proxy In Canton, China, because Shih Kwangtung could not come from Singapore for his marriage ceremony, the bride's parents selected a handsome rooster to take his place, married...