Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shao-hsiung from Nanking, and was rumored devoting all his time to frantic efforts to move $10,000,000 in treasure, his personal fortune, away from imminent capture by advancing Japanese troops. Meanwhile to Generalissimo Chiang there rushed from south China able General Li Tsung-ien, longtime War Lord partner...
All this meant that brutally invaded China was rallying strongly last week, apparently united more closely than ever. Renewed confidence at Nanking brought enthusiastic Chinese press stories, to be accepted with reserve, which boasted that erstwhile Chinese Communist troops had recaptured in Shansi the Yenman Pass and the Pingshing Pass...
Long Ears Equal Wisdom? Second only to the paradox that Japanese should restore Peking's name last week is the paradox that the Japanese military Com-mander-in-Chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, was an intimate friend and cash contributor to the fortunes of Dr. Sun...
Whether or not this proves to be a conference of wrist-slappers, Shanghai dispatches announced this week that at least two of the conference nations, the French Republic and the Soviet Union, are at length helping China to give Japan black eyes by supplying bombing planes flown to Nanking from...
When the latest shipment of newsreels from the Chinese-Japanese war reached Manhattan last week, the city's Japanese Chamber of Commerce heard a rumor which caused it great discomfiture. The Chamber was under the impression that a shot of captured Japanese aviators exercising in their shirttails might bring...