Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The trouble at Swatow began when a Chinese customs supervisor took an intolerable attitude toward Japanese smugglers who have been operating on so huge a scale that rice-tax receipts at Swatow have fallen from $400,000 per month to $12,000. Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of...
Instead, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has pocketed pride to strive for the betterment and consolidation of Central China, not immediately menaced by Japan. Some 300 miles south of Nanking at Nanchang in the fastness of Kiangsi Province he also established one of the greatest fighting air bases in the Far...
With the Generalissimo of China thus busy with matters more practical than fighting Japan, the Nanking Government has had to have a Premier whom Japanese would consider pro-Japanese, this remarkable Chinese being Mr. Wang Ching- wei. When he himself could no longer stomach his sickening role and resigned "because...
Of paramount importance last week, and liable to be seized by Japan while Italy distracts the world's attention, was the remainder of North China. Last June efforts were made by Japan to cripple that part of this area within the Great Wall by demanding that its local Government...
This, the general predicted, will result in "a paradise of live-&-let-live" in China. "A new political setup, independent of Nanking politically as well as economically, is necessary in North China. This region has annual revenues exceeding $130,000,000-ample for an independent State."