Word: manchurian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight Soviet propaganda, explain the Nationalist Government to the Manchurian masses. In return for this the Panchen Lama receives a new title: "Great Wise Priest Who Guards the Nation and Spreads Culture." and $480,000 ($2,160,000 Mex.) a year. $120,000 for himself and entourage, and $30,000 a month extra for "administrative expenses...
...British police were baffled again last week, in the mysterious affair of Lieutenant Chevis and the Manchurian partridge...
Lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis, a dashing artillery officer with wavy black hair and a handsome mustache, was an instructor at Aldershot Training Camp. As a great treat his pretty young wife went up to town and purchased a brace of Manchurian partridge, a little one and a big one, for the lieutenant's dinner. As a dutiful British wife she gave her husband the big one. He took a few mouthfuls, complained of the taste and made his wife sample it. The two partridges were taken out to the kitchen and burned. That night Lieutenant Hubert Chevis died...
...London, experts inspected the remains of the shipment of Manchurian partridges but no more poisoned birds were found. Sportsmen advanced a new theory. In Manchuria hunters are in the habit of poisoning the carcasses of partridges with strychnine and leaving them on the ground as bait to catch rare foxes without spoiling the fur. One of these bait birds might have found its way to Lieut. Chevis' dinner table. But what about the HOORAYS of J. Hartigan...
...General" Feng Yu-hsiang and Northern Generals Shih Yu-san and Sun Tien-ying moved their combined forces (110,000 men) across Honan Province, threatening the juncture of the Lung-Hai and Peiping-Hankow railways, then started north through Hopei Province, apparently bound for the port of Tientsin. Nationalist Manchurian troops along this front were leaderless, since Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Force, was in a Peiping hospital, officially with pneumonia, which was rumored to be really a bullet-hole inflicted by his own bodyguard, bought off by the Cantonese...