Word: shantung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just two months ago the young women wept and carried on, but could not dissuade doughty Marshal Chang from setting out with a shipload of adventurers to capture the Chinese city of Chefoo-just across the Yellow Sea-and thus repossess himself of the rich province of Shantung...
...when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north bank of the Yang-tze-kiang, last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage in prolonged dickering and skirmishing...
...waste of breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July 2), Marshal Chang Tsung-chang bled the people to ruin and starvation with outrageous taxes before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band...
...hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...