Word: tsinan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, was captured from the troops of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin last week by the armies of the Nanking Nationalist Government. The Peking troops fled to positions on the northern bank of the Yellow River; but meanwhile the Nanking soldiers had become embroiled with Japanese troops who had come up from Tsing Tao to guard the Tsinan Japanese colony...
...hospital and school maintained by the United States Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Last week, details finally emerged as to the recent murder of Hospital Superintendent Dr. Walter F. Seymour (TIME, May 7). It appeared that when Nationalist troops took Tsining recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...
...heart the Rev. Dr. Walter F. Seymour, 65, superintendent of the U. S. Presbyterian Mission Hospital at Tsining, in southwestern Shantung Province. Details were completely lacking due to the chaotic conditions produced in Shantung by the Civil War (TIME, April 30) which continued last week to centre around Tsinan, the capital of the province. When told of the murder of Dr. Seymour, his daughter Ada, said at Milwaukee, last week: "I have been strengthening myself for some time to receive such news...
...South China Nanking Government sent its main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...
Though the Southerners reported that they had actually taken Tsinan, the facts appeared to be that its fall was merely imminent and that the casualties on both sides had been unusually heavy...