Word: lin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern factions of the Chinese Civil War. Retaliation. The northern War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which are pledged to the repayment of the foreign loans. The kingpin was Sir Francis Arthur Aglen, the Inspector...
News of these troop movements of course reached China by cable, and profoundly excited the Chinese. In North Chinn, now nominally friendly to the foreigner, the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin spoke through his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, in ominous fashion...
...waters ? "the greatest armada assembled since the World War." Mobs, large or small, menaced the foreigner in almost every Chinese city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow and elsewhere mobs were incited against the Yang-kuei tze by the old story: "The Foreign Devil kills Chinese babies and cuts them...
...pursuit of Tony Morrell. Tony, a painter's son, has broken their engagement because he too has known Shirley and David's "green forest," and be cause Franklin Challoner's daughter is not the kind of person who understands "green forests." When Tony was kind to a harlot, Frank lin Challoner's daughter felt insulted...
...have been shown no less the use of the sword than how to propagandize their troops into a frenzy of Cantonese loyalty. Chiang Kaishek, a sort of super-Whampoa Cadet, is content to wear an austere cotton shirt and sips hot water with his frugal meals, while Chang Tso-lin banquets among his dancing girls. From the cold north of Manchuria and Peking comes the barbaric Mogul to drive back if he can the Cadet who has conquered half China-and last week Great Britain seemed to favor the Cadet...