Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The muddling through in northwest China last week was more a case of bloodling through. For the past five years China has had a compact, mobile, self-styled "Red State"-a vast semi-bandit group of Chinese Communists under able native Red generals, propagandists and administrators who in 1931 had...
By no means all, perhaps not a majority, of Kidnapper Chang's troops had gone over to the Red State last week and strong Nanking forces under General Ku Chu-tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money...
Hopefully the commander of Nanking's crack soldiers drawing near Sian, General Ku, announced: "Upon entering Sian, I am disposed not to assert authority but only give advice, when asked, for a preliminary period of three months. After that, if conditions have not bettered, I am resolved to take...
The troops under General Ku are the famed "Chiang's Own," smartly drilled by Germans, far better equipped than any other Chinese force, strictly brought up in the Christian virtues for years by the Methodist Generalissimo. That these soldiers might be morally too good was a fear to which...
Futher research revealed that competition for the University's shortest name, far from being a walk away, is closely contested. Three candidates from China and one from Hawaii seem to be neck and neck at the amazing total of two letters each. They are, respectively, Y. Ku of Peiping, C...