Word: shan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pledge death supporting your continues resistance against invaders" was the wireless message sent to General Ma Chan shan in Taitsihar, China, by the Harvard Chinese students, as announced recently by P. C. Kno, president of the Harvard Chinese Students' Club. He has also declared that no students would leave the University to flight in Manchuria...
...Japanese General Staff determined to repair the bridge. Last week a Japanese repair crew, guarded by 800 Japanese soldiers, went briskly to work. Near by were 2,500 Chinese troops under anti-Japanese General Ma Chan-shan. As to how the battle began there were indeed "misunderstandings." Each side charged the other with opening fire without provocation. For three hours there was a battle, but of the peculiar Manchurian kind. Only 15 Japanese were reported killed as their comrades slew 120 Chinese, advanced and drove General Ma's remaining troops flying before them toward Tsitsihar. Later General Ma returned...
...Chiang threatened fortnight ago to declare war on Japan (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week he kept quiet, despatched urgent wires to northern War Lords who might join in a fight with Japan. Two of these, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang "The Christian General" in Inner Mongolia and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan "The Model Governor" are doughty battlers whose names are Chinese household words. If they joined President Chiang, and they have joined him before (TIME, Dec. 24,1928), China could oppose Japan with perhaps 200,000 trained and equipped soldiers, plus a rag-tag & bobtail of 1,600,000 ineffective Chinese...
...Egged by Japanese General Honjo, now seeking to set up a puppet Chinese regime in Manchuria, puppet Chinese General Chang Hai-peng advanced last week upon Tsitsihar, held by loyal Chinese General Ma Chan-shan who offered peacefully to give up the old walled town...
...Kennedy's extensively superfluous comments on his winnings which constituted yapping might be quoted for pages. Short samples: "Love covers everything. . . . I shan't become one of the idle rich. . . . I'll have to go somewhere to get away. . . . I believe I won because of my faith in God. . . . Shucks, $145.000 isn't a fortune. . . . Money isn't everything. . . ." The Boston Daily Globe described him as "completely bewildered": the N. Y. Herald Tribune as "a trembling Negro . . . tears streaming down his cheeks...