Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover it is well to bear in mind that association of one form or another is inevitable since 97% of the Free State's exports go to Great Britain and Northern Ireland and 81% of its imports come from the same source. The guarantees against a real jinx in the Irish stew seem adequate...
Chang Tso-lin, ontime "King of Bandits," Super-Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China and as much of the South as the Nationalists and his own genrals will let him have, found time last week to exercise his political astuteness. Despite the fact that he is reported to be "worried to death" over Sun Chuan-fang's drive south to recapture his beloved Shanghai - beloved for the revenue it gave him, Marshal Chang published a mandate entitled "The Law for the Protection of Human Rights...
Politically, the move was seen as a bid on the part of Marshal Chang for political popularity particularly in the South, where many desertions to the Northern side might well be expected to result...
...British, long deaf to Nationalist complaints against their joyriding over Chinese territory, forthwith cut the railroad line between Shanghai, Hangchow and Ningpo, thus halting the Nationalist retreat from the oncoming Northern army...
...Petra, abandoned stone city of northern Arabia, a Bedouin started great excitement by happening to poke a certain boulder in a certain way and, later, telling what he had seen. The boulder had tilted, dropping him into a shallow vault, then crashed shut. Feeling his way through Stygian passages for perhaps half a mile, he reached (he said) a large, lighted chamber whence six other tunnels burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba...