Word: shantung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earnestly urged that the League request cessation of hostilities by the Japanese troops and their immediate withdrawal from Shantung...
Government, said: "The presence of Japanese troops in Shantung is at once a violation of Chinese sovereignty...
...good many years, backed Chang Tso-lin, the Northern Dictator. That is one fact well known. But here is a second fact. We were on our way to Peking to expel Chang Tso-lin when the present trouble [Japanese intervention] commenced. Our army had al ready captured Shantung. The intervention of the Japanese undoubtedly was a godsend to Chang Tso-lin. There you have two facts; all you have to do is to put them together." Dr. Wu's facts are facts, and his conclusion is sound. The Nationalist position is deserving of much sympathy...
Approximately 9,000,000 Chinese are facing starvation in Shantung province (TIME, Jan. 23 et seq.) and U. S. citizens are being besought for the comparatively modest contribution of $10,000,000 by the National Committee for China Famine Relief. Last week the N. C. C. F. R. chose as its Chairman the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, writer of daily homilies for the New York Herald Tribune, and president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...
While the various armies engaged in the current Chinese war maneuver under the leadership of rival generals with unpronounceable names, the policy of watchful waiting Japan has had to adopt since the Peace Conference took Shantung away from her begins to show sings of developing into more aggressive tactics. Nine years after the treaty, the rest of the world that retains any interest whatsoever in China has become thoroughly disillusioned as to the possibility of that country developing a peaceful regime unaided. So when the time comes, as appearance indicate it will before long, for intervention to be repeated...