Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second, the Japanese Government is resolved that the Chinese Civil War shall not spread still further northward from Peking into Manchuria, now teeming with little brown colonists from the neighboring Islands of Japan. Therefore the Japanese General Staff, although exceedingly friendly to Chang Tso-lin, recently gave warning (TIME, May 28) that neither he nor any other Chinese would be permitted to enter Manchuria for purposes of active warfare...
...War Lord's sumptuous private train rushed toward Manchuria, preceded and followed by grim armored pilot trains, he knew that only an attack by enemy spies or some supreme treachery among his followers could deprive him of life or his great wealth. The unexpected and improbable occurred when two Nationalist spies were able to intercept Chang's train with shrewdly tossed bombs, which smashed three railway cars, but injured the War Lord very slightly, according to despatches...
Third, the effect of this situation was that if War Lord Chang had fought a last engagement at Peking, suffered defeat, and then retired still fighting and chased by the Nationalists toward Manchuria, he would have found his retreat cut off by the Japanese...
...bicycle's wing skeleton is made of chrome molybdenum, that strong, light, beautifully tempered metal whose high value was discovered during the War, which has become important in airplane construction. This framework is covered with noninflammable celluloid upon the surface of which are distributed many "feathers" (strips of the molybdenum). The whole machine weighs 117 pounds, can be built...
...Mail service which had caused the deaths of numerous pilots were remedied after a Scripps reporter had investigated and his chiefs had acted. Last week Scripps-Howard set out upon a bold, bolder, boldest crusade: trying to persuade the U. S. to pay the Civil War Debt to British investor: which was incurred and then repudiated by eight onetime Confederate States...