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...travelers most courteously and insisted on giving them angered escort for the first part of their journey by cart. The escort left them at the border of the province of Honau? which at that was infested with bandits, and the party passed safely in the peaceful province of Shensi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Fogg Museum Expedition Now Preparing in Pekin--First Yielded Treasures of Gobi Art, Seen by Marco Polo | 3/20/1925 | See Source »

Super-Tuchun Wu of Chihli, Shantung, Honan, Kiangsu, Shansi, Shensi and Szechwan, greatest power and most brilliant military genius in China. He is the military power of the Peking Government and is allied with Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu against Chang and his cronies. His precise strength was not known, due to the fact that it was not certain that all the provinces under his sway would permit themselves to be swayed his way. In China, as elsewhere, every man is first and foremost for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Changese War | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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