Word: manchuria
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Paradoxically, Yen's resignation, his evacuation of Peking were not decisive, rather the reverse. The old city's new master is a human enigma: Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, War Lord of Manchuria, from which his wellarmed, well-fed troops arrived by the thousand in swiftly chuffing freight trains...
...Nanking, seat of the central Chinese "National Government," recognized by the U. S., headed by stalwart little President Chiang Kaishek, jubilant mobs hailed the new status of Peking as meaning that "their" troops were taking it over. News extras said that Manchuria's Chang had accepted the rank of "vice commander of the Nationalist army & navy"?that is to say, he had climbed off his neutral fence, proclaimed himself a 100% Nationalist...
...Chang. The young Manchurian, it was said, would hold Peking during the winter, nominally as a Nationalist, actually biding his time. In the spring, when Chinese wars begin, he would see. If by that time the Shansi marshal and his great ally Feng had recouped their strength, Manchuria's Chang might join them in a new attempt to capture all China...
Only important Nationalist defeat of the week was the disheartening return of General Wu Ti-chen, Nationalist government representative in Mukden, Manchuria, to Nanking. Sitting firmly in Mukden is Manchuria's little warlord Chang Hsueh-liang, who rules an area larger than France and Italy together and who inherited $10,000,000 in negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been...
...Cabinet of Phillips Brooks House will be present at an international breakfast of the Council of Christian Associations for Greater Boston in the Y. M. C. A. rooms at 9.30 o'clock on Sunday morning. K. J. Beaton of Toronto University will speak on his experiences in Manchuria, Korea, and Japan...