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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city of Peking, for five centuries the traditional Capital of China, fell last week to the South Chinese Nationalist Armies. Noble was the evacuation carried out by the great Marshal Chang Tso-lin. Scarcely a retreat, and in no sense a rout, the War Lord's departure took on the semblance of a stately pilgrimage. The event was of paramount importance because, for the first time in the present decade of Civil War, it can now be substantially claimed that all of China proper is under a single regime-the Nationalist Government, founded by the late, famed and revered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peking Falls | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Chang Evacuates. Since 1911 the word of War Lord Chang Tso-lin has been and still is law in Manchuria, the vast and fruitful Chinese province which adjoins China proper on the North and is adjacent to Japanese territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peking Falls | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

South Chinese soldiers of the Nanking Nationalist Government battled valorously last week, in an effort to capture Peking from the North Chinese Dictator Chang-Tso-lin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Expert Opinion | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...restaurant of the estimable Lin Hing, at No. 2, the Bowery, Manhattan, there assembled last week 15 notable Chinamen who proceeded to found the Chinese Aero League of America. President of the League Dr. Tien Lee Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from Dallas, Texas, to China, for a purse of $50,000 offered by Col. W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Spirit of Canton | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Chinese Civil War seemed about to spread to Manchuria, last week,-a development of gravest international consequence, since Manchuria contains many Japanese colonists. Swarming up from Nanking, the South Chinese armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were on the verge of capturing Peking from North China Dictator Chang Tso-lin, whom they expected to drive pell mell into Manchuria. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Government sent duplicate stiff notes of warning to both Chinese factions, last week, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Powers on the Alert | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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