Word: manchu
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...explosion was the signal for revolutionaries who toppled the Manchu dynasty in ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence...
Despatches from Peking stated that the recent siege (TIME, April 12) had been definitely broken by the entrance of the Manchu warriors, and that foreigners continued unmolested, safe in the legation quarter...
...enemy in a hot laundry or at best chops off his head with a meat cleaver in a hall bedroom. Such lack of consideration for reporters, such neglect of the movie career lying open to the artistic murderer brings one to the conclusion that the author of "Fu Manchu", anxious for his monopoly of mystery, has bribed the vengeful Chinese to be deliberately dull. If this guess be true, the tong member who so prostitutes his art, richly deserves the deportation awaiting...
Chang Tso-lia, Super Tuchun of Manchuria, was expected to attack the capital from Tientsin, because he was greatly dissatisfied with the Chief Executive. With the ex-Emperor at Tientsin, the rumor of course spread that Tuchun Chang was engaged in engineering a Manchu restoration...
...this time he was active, spreading revolt through his Anti-Manchu organization, known far and wide in China as the "Dare-to-dies...