Word: wanhsien
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...
...Unfortunately, before the matter was settled, British cruisers arrived a Wanhsien, and opened fire on the town, destroying a thousand houses, killing a thousand civilians and a hundred gendarmerie. Other cruisers appeared, training guns on Wanhsien. The Chinese returned the fire in self-defense...
...with us just let them start it. In the end we will win, for China is weary of being treated as an inferior nation." Since this version of the affair differs completely from Occidental news despatches (TIME, Sept. 20) representing the Chinese as having been the aggressors at Wanhsien, Mr. Chu's charges roused the British representative, Lord Cecil, to empurpled fury...
Controlling himself, Viscount Cecil rapped out that from what he knew of the incident at Wanhsien it was "not at all as described...
Above the Yangtze Rapids, at Wanhsien, a British river gunboat expedition penetrated in sufficient force to intimidate the local dictator, General Yang Sen, who was prevailed upon to release two British river steamers recently seized...