Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mystery Army. At Canton the political heirs of Sun Yat-sen had cut themselves off from the Occident by imposing an anti-British boycott. Behind this screen they organized and drilled an army whose strength was universally underestimated. Suddenly, last August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever...
Above the Yangtze Rapids, at Wanhsien, a British river gunboat expedition penetrated in sufficient force to intimidate the local dictator, General Yang Sen, who was prevailed upon to release two British river steamers recently seized...
Yang. One General Yang Sen, a little sloe-eyed commander, 45, nominally subordinate to Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (see above), caused the affray by seizing the British river freight boats Wan-tung and Wanhsien. General Yang alleged that the Wanliu, another British freighter owned by the same company as those seized had previously upset two sampans filled with his soldiers. Despite the protests of the local British consul General Yang placed 300 soldiers on the captured freighters who promptly locked the white officers and passengers in their cabins, fed them but sparingly...
...elected United States Senator by Illinois voters, will not have the slightest chance of being seated. "What should Republicans of Illinois do in this emergency? Clearly they cannot afford - the National Republican Party cannot afford - to permit Colonel Smith's perverted ambition to lose a seat in the Sen ate to the party and to the National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such...
...confused with the late radical, Dr. Sun Yat-sen of Canton...