Word: shantung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that in the conference with President Wilson which followed 'exactly the same ground was covered.' The question of the Far East was not raised and there is nothing to show that either Colonel House or the President knew anything of the understanding between the Allies and Japan regarding Shantung." The Colonel looked forward to the peace conference "as a good opportunity which may be lost because of the grasping, selfish interests ever ready to use such occasions for their own and their country's aggrandizement. . . . ." With regard to American loans to the associated powers, he wrote to the President...
...dread, slow-spreading famine in Shantung and adjoining provinces (TIME, Feb. 6) had pushed 150,000 Chinese to the brink of Death, last week, put 300,000 into a condition of "agonizing starvation," and rendered 1,000,000 stomachs light if not quite empty...
...China explicitly describe Feng as a "traitor," .the Christian Marshal's missionary friends continued, last week, indignant at the adjective. The peculiar reasoning by which the missionary mind arrives at a conclusion opposed to the journalistic has seldom been better exemplified than by Miss Luella Miner of the Shantung Christian University, who wrote last week: "I challenge [anyone] to point to any 'cause' or superior officer or associate whom Marshal Feng has 'deserted' or 'betrayed' that has not been discredited later by those who did not have the vision and courage...
Chinafolk in Manhattan's famed China Town were continuing resolutely, last week, a boycott of all Japanese wares which they began when Japan recently sent troops to occupy the Chinese province of Shantung (TIME, April 30). Potent Editor Seto Chen of the Chinatown Nationalist Daily said, last week: "I know a Chinese merchant here who has a stock of Japanese goods worth $15,000 on his shelves. He has consented to let our Chinese Citizens League decide what to do with it. If I am not mistaken there will be a big bonfire in Mott Street one of these...
Meanwhile Japan continued to maintain several potent armed forces in China, to protect her nationals in the provinces of Shantung, and Manchuria and in Peking (Chihli Province) (TIME, April 30). Therefore, in all probability the men who knew most authoritatively last week, which way the tide of Chinese Civil War will turn were the officers comprising the Japanese Imperial General Staff...