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Word: nankingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inner Mongolia was the bloody scene of a furious contest between Generals Tang Yulin and Liu Kwei-tang, reported in dispatches to have devastated the eastern part of the Province of Chahar. But was not this, after all, their "private war"? The Council of Generals took that view. Generalissimo Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

To the man who conquered China, as Chiang did, in a great civil war which raged from Canton to Peiping, six major revolts occasion no appalling dismay. If China were really to be pacified the Generalissimo would have to ride off not in six directions but in sixty, for there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

The really serious threat to his authority has been the spreading power of the Chinese Communist generals whose Soviet Governments rule some 200,000 square miles in fertile Kiangsi Province and thereabouts (see map). He has bought openly as many as 10,000 hospital beds at one clip, bought discreetly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Sinkiang, a province of barren wastes and rich oases 2,000 miles northwest of Nanking, was still the scene last week of savage guerrilla warfare between wild-eyed Moslem tribesmen and the better equipped Chinese troops sent out to rule them. Sinkiang paper money was worth 3% of its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

A pack of Southern generals, all with bitter personal grudges against Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, broke with his Nanking Government last week and declared the secession of the coastal province of Fukien, styling themselves gloriously "The Chinese National Great Allied Revolutionary Government."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Grudge Government | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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