Word: taipeh
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...pleasant evening a truckload of monopoly police cruised down the main streets of Formosa's capital, Taipeh, hunting monopoly violators. They piled out, clubbed a woman who had been hawking cigarets. (This was against Chen's law, which said that Formosans could smoke only Formosa-made cigarets-from his gang's factory.) A crowd gathered. A policeman fired. The crowd chased off the police, burned their truck...
...sent another Miss Hsieh (whose full name meant Thanks Moon Angel) to the radio to assure the public-incorrectly-that nobody had been killed when the gendarmes fired into the crowd on the first day. Moon Angel was just as well known as Snow Red. She was a Taipeh lady doctor, locally famous for championing relief and rehabilitation for displaced prostitutes, who had beaten Snow Red for election as Formosa's woman delegate to the National Assembly in Nanking. Fellow Formosans did not like Moon Angel's radio speech, however. They dragged her furniture and belongings into...
...Taipeh last week, General Chen relaxed complacently in a Japanese armchair beneath a pot of purplish-pink azaleas. Then, leaning toward the green brocaded table cover, grey mustache bristling, dark little eyes sharp under their puffy lids, he spoke...