Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feng has been spending the summer in poor health near the "Sacred Mountain," meditating an alliance with model Governor Han of Shantung and model Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi Province. Should those three able heads really get together, Generalissimo Chiang, Marshal Chang Jr. and the so-called Chinese Government...
Since most big armament buys are successfully kept secret, last week was remarkable only for what came to light. Munitions were pouring into the world's newest state (see p. 16). Japanese arsenals were going full blast. Japanese Marines suddenly landed at Nanking, the so-called Capital of China, from...
In Manchuria, Japanese troops celebrated the coming of their new commander by invading Jehol Province (TIME, Aug. 1). Led by bombing planes, flanked by armored trains and tanks, a Japanese force under General Suzuki swept over the Jehol border from Chinchow and captured Nanling. General Tung Fu-ting, defending general...
In Shanghai, terrorist societies kept the mail boxes of Chinese judges filled with anonymous letters threatening the most painful forms of mayhem to any who should impose sentence on a boycotter. Department stores were picketed, Japanese shops were bombed. In Nanking the Legislative Council repudiated the Sino-Japanese treaty of...
Fortnight ago the reed broke. Wang Ching-wei, Cantonese leader who joined his old enemy Chiang Kai-shek to oppose Japan at Shanghai, resigned as Premier of the Nanking government, dragging the entire cabinet with him and sending an acid note to Chiang Kai-shek complaining bitterly at the piffling...