Word: mukden
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...banner of the Nanking Nationalist Government quietly occupied Peking, last week, but in such curious fashion that no man could say with certainty in whose hands the city actually lay. It had previously been evacuated (TIME, June 11) by the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who retired to Mukden, Manchuria, and lay there, last week, nigh to death from wounds inflicted by an assassin's bomb...
...Peking Diplomatic Corps informed the Nationalists, at this point, in the name of the Great Powers, that General Pao and his men, by preserving order through a difficult crisis, had deserved well of all concerned and must not be harmed or hindered in their progress toward Mukden...
...presence at Tientsin gave confidence to U. S. citizens in Peking. They still feared, to be sure, that the Peking War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, might withdraw before the Southern armies,, retire to his war base at Mukden, and abandon Peking to its conquerors; but with General Butler at hand, together with British, Japanese and French marine detachments, the safety of Occidentals in Peking seemed secure...
...month. The total earnings of the road are $1,500,000 and the payroll $650,000 per month. It is obvious the employes cannot be paid-and they had not been for several months. Another dominant War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, is receiving the revenue of the Peking-Mukden Railroad...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...