Word: pais
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title: in Chinese, Pai jih p'o ching chih yuan;* in Tin Pan Alleyese, When I Get Out, Beloved. Inmate Yun, 27, based his song on a 2,000-year-old Cantonese legend of a separated bride & groom, joined again in old age with the aid of matching halves of a little round mirror each had treasured through the years...
They must first suppress the Man, Chiang, who has spoiled their plans. Even if they could get him they might not bring an end to Chinese resistance. Chinese national consciousness is becoming a hardy plant, and there are now other good Chinese generals, notably Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi of the crack Kwangsi army, who might carry on. But the death of Chiang might mean a short period of struggle for power within China. With such a struggle for power going on, Japan could terminate hostilities without loss of Face...
...Nanking, and was rumored devoting all his time to frantic efforts to move $10,000,000 in treasure, his personal fortune, away from imminent capture by advancing Japanese troops. Meanwhile to Generalissimo Chiang there rushed from south China able General Li Tsung-ien, longtime War Lord partner of able Pai Tsung-hsi (TIME, Sept. 6). Eight years ago these two rebelled against Chiang because he was then unwilling to fight Japan as they thought China should. Last month General Pai became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships in Nanking, General...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, knowing the mettle of this opponent, retaliated in kind. Over the Chinese forces in the Shanghai area-some 300,000-he put his onetime bitter enemy, General Pai Tsung-hsi, long held China's most brilliant military strategist. Promptly the campaign began to take shape...
Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west, covering the railroad to Nanking...