Word: manchurian
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...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...
...north this was not so sure. Peking tingled with tales of a secret pact between Yen and 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...
...effort to reduce costs, New York Steam maintains a large staff of engineers, does valuable research on combustion. Recent visitors to the plant have included technicians from the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway Co. which is considering installing similar service in the city of Dairen. A factor which has worried stockholders is the impression that Manhattan winters are becoming less severe. In its annual report, New York Steam discoursed upon this at length, concluded no such change is taking place...
...first time since Sino-Russian Railway squabbles brought the smell of war to Manchuria, a train pulled out of Harbin last week, made the first complete run over the Chinese Eastern Railway. Correspondents, hailing peace, rushed to their typewriters, praised the treaty signed at Khabarovsk between Soviet and Manchurian delegates, whereby the C. E. R. resumed operation with a Chinese president, placid Mo Teh-hui, and a Soviet manager, vigorous M. Rudy...
Emboldened by Manchurian quiet, T. Leonard Lilliestrom, U. S. Vice Consul at Harbin, organized an international train to pass along the Chinese Eastern Railway, investigate conditions in the area of Sino-Russian dispute. The consuls of Britain, Japan, France and Germany climbed aboard...