Word: pai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sound is pleasant to Itagaki's ear. But he cannot listen to the call from Siberia without cocking an ear toward North China as well. He must have heard lately that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has sent the trusted Vice Chief of his General Staff, Mohammedan General Pai Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung...
...Japanese had tried to make sure that hard-eyed General Pai Feng-hsiang and his army of 18,000 hard-riding cavalrymen would play no tricks. So the Japanese arranged a feast and invited the surly general. When the general died the same night, the Japanese said: "So sorry." Then they looked around for a friendlier leader...
...Japanese had forgotten how wise in the ways of treachery the Mongols were. When it leaked out that General Pai had been poisoned, his entire Army of 18,000 men rode off in the night. With them they took all the machine guns and ammunition the Japanese had given them. Near Paotow in Suiyuan Province, vowing vengeance as terrible as any conceived by Genghis Khan, the Mongols joined forces with the Chinese...
When Father Chisholm reached Pai-tan, he found "an acre of deserted earth, sun-scorched, gullied by the rains. ... At one end stood the remnants of a mud-brick chapel, the roof blown off, one wall collapsed, the others crumbling. Alongside lay a mass of caved-in rubble which might once have been a house." "Here, Father," said one of the only two rice-Christians left of the congregation, "is the mission...
...this rubbish, in the midst of hatred and contempt. Father Chisholm built the mission of Pai-tan and his spiritual life. How he taught himself to practice medicine, how he saved the life of Tycoon Chia's son, how he brought Pai-tan through the plague, famine, banditry, how he overcame the deep Teutonic hatred of his German Reverend Mother, made friends with the Methodist missionaries, was tortured by bandits and escaped, make up most of The Keys of the Kingdom...