Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back to Anarchy" seemed a glib phrase to describe last week the splitting of Chinese factions into unstable fractions of themselves. A month ago one could refer in general terms to a Northern and a rival Southern Chinese government. But last week these large groupings of power had decentralized into the hands of a few generals, politicians and adventurers precariously maintaining themselves in China's chief cities...
Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
Reds Raided. Emboldened by this Northern success, War Lord Chang Tso-lin, at Peking, ordered his soldiers to enter the grounds of the Soviet Embassy, and to seize all documents and persons in the various subsidiary offices and outbuildings, sparing only the Embassy itself...
...disaster of a year ago should be complete by the end of 1927. . . . Farmers are busy. Those who became salesmen or cut down their orange groves to make subdivisions of their farms have gone back to cultivation and are producing commodities. A general feeling pervades the state that many northern banks are not informed, are pessimistic...
VAGABOND KING (Great Northern, Jackson Bivd...