Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting in China began last fortnight in the southwestern suburbs of Peiping between Japanese troops engaged in war games and the Chinese forces of General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting...
Japanese troop trains by this time were arriving at Tientsin although Chinese troops of General Sung were mobilizing there simultaneously. In the same railway station one could see Japanese soldiers squatting in their trains on one railway siding while on another siding squatted Chinese troops. Japanese trains had Japanese engineers, crews and switchmen...
...Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung were concerned and returned to Japan in semi-disgrace. His intrigue had succeeded, however, in bringing into semi-autonomous existence a Chinese regime more or less under Japan's thumb which is now governing Hopei and Chahar. An able, ambiguous and shrewd Chinese, General Sung Cneh-yuan, heads this regime known as the "Hopei-Chahar Political Council," and it was his troops who last week fought with valiant "broadswords" in obscure villages and lolled about in Tientsin railway stations...
...General Sung Cheh-Yuan himself was busy all week "negotiating" with Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki. What the two of them were actually doing was waiting around to see whether General Sung's nominal superiors, the Nanking Government, were really sending north "Chiang's Own" and were in earnest about war with Japan or whether instead Nanking would tolerate the setting up of General Sung's territory as "another kuo," that is, as a Japanese puppet state, per-haps to be called Huapeikuo ("North China Country...
Neither a traitor nor a patriot but a Chinese realist, General Sung quite realized that he was at the mercy of General Kazuki unless Chinese Generalissimo Chiang should strongly back him, and this week Sung suddenly caved in, so Kazuki said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...