Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Chang saw that the Cantonese were pressing hard upon Sun. The time was opportune to forget the $2,000,000 payment that had passed between them. Chang, ever faithless, forgot it easily; last week, ordered his troops with Sun to betray the latter, and marched upon Shanghai himself with an army said to number...
...Capitulates. Chang and Sun met at Nanking, west of Shanghai, last week. The tall, heavy-muscled Chang curtly told the man from whom he had accepted $2,000,000 that gold was a thing of the past. Remained steel and lead. In these Chang predominated. He Would be generous. Sun might keep his head upon his shoulders...
From that meeting Sun emerged to disappear into hiding in a manner peculiar to Chinese war lords who have been checkmated. He who had lorded at Shanghai, absolute even a month ago, vanished so completely that correspondents reported him to be in two or three places at the same time...
Chang, victorious traitor, quickly moved a division of his troops into Shanghai, sent his main army to reinforce the troops of Sun which had continued all the while their stubborn resistance to the Nationalist attack upon Shanghai...
...General Li Pao-chang, Shanghai Commissioner of Defense, continued his attempts to break the general strike (TIME, Feb. 28) by ordering soldiers to march about the streets, cutting off the heads of alleged strikers and setting up these gory warnings upon poles...