Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Nettleton's finger was not the only outrage to British women in China last week. Mrs. A. R. J. Herne, wife of a British engineer of the Tientsin-Pukow railway, was sleeping in their house on the outskirts of Nanking some distance from her husband's bedroom...
With the Nationalist troops which normally protect central China withdrawn to defend Nanking from the advancing Peking war lords, a raggle-taggle army swept down on the river city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province, and laid it low. Correspondents were unanimous in describing the Changsha looters as a Communist...
Married. Henry Killam Murphy of New York, architectural adviser to the Nationalist Government of China (TIME, Oct. 14). designer of Peking Union Medical College, Yale-in-China, Ginling College; and Mrs. Dagny Carter, who was given in marriage by Hon. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China: at Gin...
At such times a troupe of performing politicians is needed. War Lord Yen had imported 15 from Nanking, capital of "Nationalist" President Chiang Kaishek. Headed by Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Left faction at Nanking, the 15 troupers announced (after the band had ceased to squeal and groan) that...
Marshal Chiang Kaishek, foe of Yen and Feng and "President of China" in name if not in fact, was reported leading his Nanking armies on no less than three fronts at once, was rumored to have contracted gangrene from a wound in the arm, was positively declared in Shanghai by...