Word: suchowfu
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...Nanking regime definitely to throw in his lot with the Nationalist cause, prepared to advance on Peking from the south-west with three primary objectives: capture of Tenchow on the Chihli-Shantung border; advance on Tsinan, capital of Shantung, by way of Tsining, to the south; capture of the Suchowfu railroad junction to the south of the Shan-tung-Kiangsu border. All these moves were designed to prevent the Shantung and Kiangsu generals from aiding their ally, Chang...
...Suchowfu, 400 miles from Peking, was the auspicious scene upon which this alliance was struck up. Came the Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Oct. 4) whose armies, originally one with the Hankow "Communist" forces, have now conquered the Southern half of China. Then, amid cheers and bugle blasts, came the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang-an abundant fellow, massive, barrel-sized, jowled like a tiger, and last week unshaven, scowling, imperious in the pride of his new power...
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