Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Canton, lately the centre of a tricky revolt against Nanking which cloaked itself in the guise of a Chinese movement to fight Japan, entered last week General Yu Han-mou, newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still...
Chinese censorship will rigidly suppress the facts and Chinese consuls abroad will loudly protest rumors, but what Canton, Shanghai and Nanking were saying last week boiled down to this: 1) General Chen took "silver bullets" from the Japanese and bought a good many lead bullets as a gesture to bring...
Even those 100% skeptics about everything Chinese, the non-Chinese-speaking white correspondents at Shanghai, agreed last week that the Nanking Government of sagacious Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has now got a firmer hold upon recently rebellious South China than has been held by any Chinese Government since the collapse...
Let out of Canton jails by General Yu were quantities of the "Blue Shirt" strong-arm men who it is Nanking etiquette to say are not the Generalissimo's spies, agents provocateurs and throat-slitters!
This week the troops of Nanking, shooing the Kwangsi troops out of the way, marched into Canton, took it over in the name of the Nationalist Government. The collapse of the great Southwest rebellion was highly discouraging to Japanese, who landed marines near Canton "to protect Japanese lives and property...