Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalist (Cantonese) advance upon Shanghai (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.) brought them a great victory early in the week when they captured and looted Hangchow, 113 miles from Shanghai, and put to flight the troops of War Lord Sun Chuan-fang, defender of Shanghai...
...Canadian Pacific S. S. Empress of Scotland landed 500 world- circling tourists at Shanghai while the Nationalist armies were only 60 miles away. Soon the tourists scuttled back on board, steamed away...
...Sixty-five thousand Chinese workers at Shanghai began a general strike to celebrate the fall of Hangchow (see above). Strike leaders nailed up placards: "The Nationalist force has been victorious. The power of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang has ended. The time is opportune for the people to assist the movement against the War Lords...
...Hankow, recently evacuated by the British, who abandoned to the Nationalists a $60,000,000 capital investment (TIME, Jan. 17) negotiations continued all week between British representative Owen O'Malley, and the Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen. An agreement was finally signed between them relating to the British holdings abandoned at Hankow, but the text of this agreement was kept secret...
Professor S. K. Hornbeck, authority on Far Eastern questions, will speak at the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room. His subject will be "The Nationalist Movement in China...