Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heavy Swords. For months troops of the New Nationalist Government of South China have been slowly pressing their campaign toward Shanghai, which has been defended by the potent Marshal Sun Chuan-feng. Sun knows that all this while trained spies and agitators have crept in advance of the Nationalist army into Shanghai by twos and threes. Their propaganda, mostly in English, has taken good effect. Last week all transport workers of Shanghai and the employes of several mills went on strike?prepared to revolt and join the Nationalist army when it should draw nearer...
...Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as "Communists...
...Foochow. Nationalist soldiers looted the mission quarter of Foochow, a sizable southern sea port, abducted hundreds of Chinese orphan girls cared for by the missionaries, and forced the Spanish Bishop Aguirre to flee by sea to Hongkong. British and Y, M. C. A. missions were also looted...
Against his wits were pitted those of four Cantonese Nationalists whose names loomed internationally last week from the present headquarters at Hankow: 1) T. V. Soong, 33, a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader at Hankow, partly because he is the brother-in-law of the late founder of the Nationalist movement, famed Dr. Sun Yatsen. He and his sister, the pretty widow, serve to remind soldiers and coolies of the great revolutionary name. 2) Eugene Chen, Foreign Secretary of the Nationalist Government...
...four hours the game of bluff and bruises continued. Once 20 coolies, armed only with sticks, bore a British marine to the ground, tore his rifle from him, plunged the bayonet into his heart. Still no shot was fired. Then, suddenly, a troop of Chinese soldiers from the Nationalist stronghold across the river arrived and dispersed the mob with a few shots. The commander blandly explained to the British that he had been delayed. No fool, the British Consul knew that he lied. The riot was a Nationalist warning...