Word: nnan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business halted. Suddenly, another situation was superimposed on the first. After the death of Dr. Sun Yatsen (TIME, Mar. 23), leader of the South China Party, his adherents split into two factions: a radical, which retained the name Kuo Mintang; a conservative, formed from Sun's Yünnan supporters, called the Yünnanese Party. The Yünnanese controlled Canton. The Kuo Mintang controlled the nearby island of Honan. The Yünnanese generals ordered the Kuo Mintang to cease movements of troops under penalty. The Kuo Mintang retorted by denouncing the Yünnanese generals...
Bandits in the Province of Yünnan captured Darcy Weatherbee, British mining engineer...