Word: telegram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing telegram received at Shanghai from Manchuria's famed General Ma (TIME, Nov. 23). For more than 40 days, according to his telegram, General Ma has been double-crossing everyone with a skill and success unrivaled even among heathen Chinese...
...thousands of dollars cabled to him by patriotic Chinese from all over the world. Then he fled before the Japanese advance and turned up as War Minister of "Independent Manchuria," the puppet state set up by Japan (TIME, March 21). Last week War Minister Ma did not send his telegram from Changchun, the puppet capital of Independent Manchuria. Instead he traveled to the remote Manchurian frontier city of Taheiho, just across the Amur River from Soviet Russia. There, with a fine disregard of telegraph costs, he wired over 1,000 words to President Chiang and to Marshal Wu?words which...
Reds & Expansion. Simple and ignorant though General Ma may be in his own elaborate words. Japanese officials charged last week that he had fleeced Japan out of grants totaling $3,000,000 gold when he rejoined the Chinese cause. That General Ma's telegram was genuine neither the Chinese Government (which published it as damaging to Japan) nor the Japanese Government doubted last week. Both publicly accepted it as authentic. But the Soviet Government after a four-day interval called the telegram false, the work of Japanese agents. This charge Moscow seemed to be making to spike rumors that what...
Soon the Mayor of Brescia received this telegram from Rome...
...between Rose Berman. a Jewess, and John Cooper, a gentile sailor boy who loves her on leave and off. Their affair scandalizes the Jewish section, who act as self-appointed sympathizers with Rose's invalid mother. Rose runs off to London, consummates her love for Cooper there. A telegram that her mother is dying brings her back to Magnolia Street in a hurry; but after her mother's death she marries Cooper, goes off to live with him elsewhere...