Word: manchuria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last autumn, after the defeat of President Tsao Kun and General Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10), Chang, one of the victors, retired to Manchuria with words of peace, promising to keep his army out of politics...
Disturbances of greater or lesser importance were reported from Szechwan, Canton, Hunan and Manchuria, where considerable friction over the Chinese Eastern Railway between Chang Tso-lin, the Manchurian Tuchun and co-dictator of the Peking Government, and the Bolsheviki was in progress...
Coming on top of Japanese recognition of Russia, such a despatching of ambassadors was far from being surprising and possibly no more would have been heard of it had not Ambassador Kopp stopped off at Harbin, in Manchuria. There he permitted himself a few words before the local Soviet Committee and was thus reported (perhaps by antiCommunists...
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...
...endowment by Colonel William Boyce Thompson (TIME, Oct. 6) has been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds to be made. The minimum age was set at 120 years and the probable age between...