Word: mao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...Kiangsi Province and thereabouts (see map). He has bought openly as many as 10,000 hospital beds at one clip, bought discreetly proportionate supplies of rifles, machine guns, field pieces, battle planes and munitions. For the heads of No. 1 Communist General Chu Teh and No. 2 Communist General Mao Cheh-tung-both Chinese of good family who received military training abroad-he has offered 80,000 silver dollars apiece, or $100,000 if the head is delivered attached to the body. With 300,000 Nanking soldiers in the field and ready to begin the anti-Red drive under Generalissimo...
...Hoover was not a defendant in the case of Chang Yen-mao v. Moreing and others (London, 1905). As Moreing's agent, he had signed disputed agreements covering the transfer of Chinese mines to an English syndicate. According to Justice Joyce, Agent Hoover "went so far as to use various threats" to Chang and "took possession of some of the title deeds of the property by main force." Justice Joyce's innuendo: "It has not been shown to me that his Excellency Chang has been guilty of any breach of faith or of any impropriety at all, which...