Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At strategic intervals the Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They...
The Nationalist Government was bound last week that if Henry Pu Yi is to return to his old home in the spring, that home will be empty. They had still another reason for moving the treasure. Nanking, the ramshackle half-rebuilt new capital of China, has always been jealous of...
One day last week Tuan suddenly set out from North China for the Capital, Nanking. "I am going to visit my daughter," said he at first. Later: "I am going to enter a monastery and study Buddhism, after I confer with the government leaders." Promptly a rash of rumors broke...
When Tuan reached Nanking he professed hostility to Japan (a necessary profession with Chinese public opinion at fury heat as it was last week), then went into a huddle with China's Generalissimo. Marshal Chiang Kaishek. A few hours later Peiping's "Young Marshal" flew down in his...
In Nanking the so-called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism...