Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canton, about 500 miles southwest from Foochow in the extreme southerly Province of Kwangtung. The war which was declared between the Kuo Mintang and Yimnanese factions (TIME, June 15) ended in a speedy victory for the radical Kuo Mintang (the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's party). Thereafter followed bloody executions of Yiinnanese soldiers who had surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that...
...that he had not, either by word or deed, encouraged Communist propaganda and would not, nor would he be director of any activities against the social order of France. As for M. Voline, he had merely represented M. Krassin at a memorial meeting for the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen and had eulogized that dead leader...
...Anderson was born at Suchow, China, of U. S. parents, and the greater part of his life was spent in China. He spoke all the principal Chinese dialects and wrote the language with great fluency. Formerly, he served as a general in Sun Yat-sen's army and then helped to bring about the fall of the Manchus...
...SEN AND THE CHINESE REPUBLIC-Paul Linebarger-Century ($4.00). A sloppy, sentimental, enthusiastic and uncritical biography of Sun Yatsen. The redeeming feature of the book lies in its many discursions into Chinese life and customs...
...object of the sudden invasion and seizure of the Forbidden City, wherein, before 1912, no stranger was allowed to enter, was not made clear. M. Karakhan, the Bolshevik Ambassador, was popularly supposed to have inspired it; Dr. Sun Yat-sen's name was also mentioned; some thought it was a desire on the part of the Provisional Government to seize precious treasures hidden in the City; most were of the opinion that the coup forestalled an attempt to restore the Ta Ch'ing Ch'ao (Great Pure Dynasty...