Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restored to his constitutional office in 1922, but now the coups d'état are merging into civil war, and Li, the last constitutional President of China, is deposed again...
...trade of war no feat...
...city of Peking, for five centuries the traditional Capital of China, fell last week to the South Chinese Nationalist Armies. Noble was the evacuation carried out by the great Marshal Chang Tso-lin. Scarcely a retreat, and in no sense a rout, the War Lord's departure took on the semblance of a stately pilgrimage. The event was of paramount importance because, for the first time in the present decade of Civil War, it can now be substantially claimed that all of China proper is under a single regime-the Nationalist Government, founded by the late, famed and revered...
Chang Evacuates. Since 1911 the word of War Lord Chang Tso-lin has been and still is law in Manchuria, the vast and fruitful Chinese province which adjoins China proper on the North and is adjacent to Japanese territory...
...emphasize the nobility of the War Lord's evacuation his son and heir, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, remained behind in Peking to hand the city over to the approaching Nationalist Armies. With him remained a little known but thoroughly potent Chinaman-General Yang Yu-ting, sometimes called the "Ludendorff" or "Brains" of Chang...