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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each became last week the theatre of a miniature civil war. Troops loyal to President Chiang battled with disaffected soldiery left over from the old regimes of the detested war lords who held sway over China like robber barons before the Nationalist conquest. To picture the situation in terms of U. S. geography, imagine President Chiang in New Orleans (Nanking) hearing that civil war has broken out on the North Atlantic seaboard (in Shantung), and also far inland on a tributary of the Mississippi (in Hunan). China's North Atlantic is the Yellow Sea, and her Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bad News | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Salt Creek oil leases censuring the Department of the Interior, of Justice. ¶ Debated a bill to stiffen prohibition violation penalties. Missouri's Reed spoke passionately. Threatened to, but did not, name by name dry Senators who drink. ¶ Ratified the first treaty with China's Nationalist Government, a treaty recognizing Chinese tariff autonomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Previously this prohibition-inspired by Turkey's 100% nationalist dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha-had applied only to officers of the Army and Navy and to Turkish diplomats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: 100% Prohibition | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...conferees included all the great Provincial Governors?hitherto semiautonomous "War Lords" in their own districts?and was chairmanned by the Nationalist conqueror of all China, spry, slender little Marshal Chiang Kai-shek who is now President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nationalist Notes | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...resolved to disband 900,000 of the 1,500,000, thus leaving the Nationalist State with a modest force of 600,000* troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nationalist Notes | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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