Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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So long as Mr. Hu continued to fulminate, safe behind his Hongkong gratings, the Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang, potent chiefly in Central China, despaired of re-establishing its authority in the South. Last week the great haggle ended in a joyous announcement by Nanking Government officials. They had paid...
Same day Generalissimo Chiang's bland, stogie-smoking brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and...
Taking this at face value and banking heavily on having bought Mr. Hu, Nanking officials claimed that prospects for a united China are now brighter than at any time since the northern part of the nation was spectacularly reconquered by Generalissimo Chiang in 1930.
The Author- Called Sweden's foremost explorer, "the modern Marco Polo," Dr. Sven Anders Hedin got his start 49 years ago as tutor with a family in Baku on the Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest...
Late that evening his family grew worried and telephoned the consulate. The consulate waited an hour or two before leaping into action. Part of Eimei Kuramoto's job in recent months had been writing firm but minor complaints on specific acts of anti-Japanese boycotting and agitation. Had he...