Word: manchuria
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...commander, who was also a doctor. They became fast friends. General McCoy married his niece, was his aide-de-camp in Cuba and the Philippines. The man was General Leonard Wood. Famed as a troubleshooter, General McCoy was sent to supervise the Nicaraguan presidential election of 1928, went to Manchuria with Lord Lytton's League of Nations commission...
...climate is good for my asthma." Chinese expected Feng's "asthma"-a standing joke-to last until he sees a fresh chance to rush forth on another profitable military escapade. During his previous retirement the League of Nations Lytton Commission investigating Japan's seizure of Manchuria tried to consult Feng on Taishan, were turned away by the excuse that...
Died. Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, 63, commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, dictator of Manchukuo; of jaundice; in Changchun, Manchuria...
...Christian War Lord" Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, July 24). Last week the great voice of War Lord Feng rumbled out of his barrel chest: "I command 100,000 soldiers! So long as there is one breath in my body I will lead these hungry soldiers to recapture Manchuria and Jehol from Japan...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...