Word: paotingfu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...variously attributed reasons, the most popular being Bolshevik machinations, Yen joined forces with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking was threatened by the most powerful military alignment since the Chinese civil war broke out and that the troops in this alignment...
...tell the mother of little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command...
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