Word: shantung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diplomatic Corps in Peking, capital of China, has under consideration a proposal for the indemnification of the foreign prisoners held by bandits after the train hold-up near Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in May. The prime factors in this plan are that for the first three days of imprisonment foreigners should receive $500 a day and for each subsequent day $100. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Minister to China, has, it is understood, been instrumental in curbing the financial appetites of his colleagues who favored much larger compensation. An agreement is expected between the members of the Diplomatic...
...Baltimore Convention in 1912, House made friends with Wilson. Later he came into the limelight with Wilson and departed from it with Wilson, although their intimacy ended some time earlier over the question of Shantung. House in his eagerness to please all parties at the Peace Conference was willing to give Shantung to Japan...
...When the Shantung bandits shocked the world by capturing foreigners last month, the Diplomatic Corps in Peking did some plain speaking to the Government. Individual members of the Cabinet took it upon themselves to please the diplomats by attempting to free the foreign captives. Each had a different plan. The result was that the Cabinet split. Even the brusque message from Jacob Gould Schurman, United States Minister, to get on with the business of freeing prisoners and cease haggling, only served to widen the breaches in the Cabinet...
From an imperfect deluge of twisted information that has been showered upon the world, a few facts stand out backed with some evidence of authenticity. One is that a Peking-Shanghai train was derailed near Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, and approximately 150 foreigners were captured by bandits. Another is that the Peking Government, while able to exert only a shadow of authority over the land, accepted the brigand's terms for the return of their captives. These terms include immunity from prosecution and incorporation in the Chinese National Army. Some of the victims are to be released...
...discarded for a comparatively feeble democratic government. They have recently been joined by the remnants of the army defeated by General Wu Pei-Fu. Bands of a hundred thousand strong and organized under a leader, Lao Yang-jen, became more daring as soon as the efficient Japanese withdrew from Shantung...