Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid Homeric moil and treachery the city of Shanghai changed hands, last week, falling to China's best detested War Lord, Chang Tsung-chang, called "Chang of Shantung...
Since October Chang has been wringing $300,000 a month additional tribute out of Sun Chuan-fang, the comparatively benevolent despot at Shanghai, in payment for not attacking Sun in the rear, while Sun has been defending Shanghai from the Southern Nationalist (Cantonese) Army (TIME...
...Sixty-five thousand Chinese workers at Shanghai began a general strike to celebrate the fall of Hangchow (see above). Strike leaders nailed up placards: "The Nationalist force has been victorious. The power of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang has ended. The time is opportune for the people to assist the movement against the War Lords...
...Ting, Mayor of Shanghai, took ship for Japan "to seek medical treatment...
...check the general strike at Shanghai, troops loyal to Sun Chuan-fang began to seize and behead strikers picketing in the streets. Excited correspondents variously set the number of strikers decapitated last week at between "46" and "1,113." The effect was to quiet the 50,000 workers, who remained on strike, skulked in their homes...