Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unrestricted childbearing among the ignorant Chinese masses, who have no knowledge of birth control; 2) low agricultural yields even from fertile land, caused by traditional, inefficient methods of cultivation; 3) backward financial and industrial conditions, just now accentuated by the widespread collapse of credit due to the Civil War; 4) the constitutional lack of a spirit of resolute co-operation among Chinese (this lack being constantly made manifest by their failure to unite in effective numbers for any purpose what soever beyond the horizon of a single family or village...
...China, now wholly war ravaged, and partially famine stricken, the familiar, perennial three "War Lords" continued, last week, their selfish machinations...
Chang Tso-lin, supreme at Peking and throughout Manchuria and North China, called a conference of all his generals, last week, to harangue and inspire them with suitable zeal for the Spring campaigns of civil war...
Feng Yu-hsiang, the "War Lord" who possesses a huge mobile army and is now skulking in Honan province was reported "tirelessly engaged," last week, in preparing for his long heralded Spring onslaught upon Peking, a capital which he has several times captured. On the last oc- casion he was, of course, finally driven from Peking by Chang Tso-lin (TIME...
...offices of small-town theatres, with a background of South American rather than Italian roads and castles, is told the medieval legend of Paolo and Francesca. A huge, hunchbacked, hirsute grandee marries a small and beautiful lady who loves his handsome brother. When the hunchback goes away to war, love for each other overcomes pity and discretion in the wife and brother. Told, by a villainous clown, of their misconduct, the hunchback gallops home to make sure the story is a lie. He arrives in time to find brother and wife languishing tearfully in each other's arms. When...