Word: manchuria
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...armies of Chang Kai-shek will assumedly make Shanghai their next objective; and among both foreigners and Chinese in the city there was last week the most intense excitement. The final seal of success was put upon Chang Kai-shek's conquest when the great Super- Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, telegraphed a proposal that the two Changs should divide China between themselves...
...such vicissitudes. A year ago he was gathering strength in the Yangtze valley for an onslaught upon Peking. So well did he succeed that he completely disrupted the power of the Pekingese Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang. For a time it seemed that Wu and the Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, would dominate the North. Then occurred the sudden and momentous upheaval which is still disrupting China to the point of anarchy...
...Kuyuin Wellington Koo, famed "political handyman of China," sometime Chinese plenipotentiary to the principal Occidental powers and conferences during the last generation, was commanded by Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, War Lord of Manchuria and Peking, to form a Cabinet...
Super-Tuchun Chang Tso-lin, "War lord of Manchuria and Peking," sent re-enforcements to Wu somewhat half-heartedly last week, but concentrated upon improving the defenses of Peking. He feared...
...sword of Chang hangs over all Manchuria. The luxury of his robber-baron court is set off in opulent relief by the stark barbaric cruelty of his oppressive military régime. While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol. He has been known to remark to a passing stranger: "Your face seems not unfamiliar. But I thought I ordered you beheaded last year...