Word: weis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chinese pot that has been boiling ominously since the Japanese invasion of Shanghai six months ago, blew the lid off last week. First Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan-i. e. Premier of the Nanking Government- resigned. Wang, a Cantonese, was the most belligerent of the anti-Japanese leaders of China. Long an opponent of Marshal Chiang Kaishek, whom he considers a self-centred militarist, he forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China...
...opposite side of the earth, in the Yellow Sea of Wei-hai-wei, the spanky new British submarine Poseidon came spuming to the surface like a dolphin after air. The hatches sprang open. The crew started clambering out. Thirty-one were on deck and 18 below when the Yuta, Chinese merchantman, smacked against the Poseidon's forward starboard side. In two minutes the Poseidon sank in 120 ft. of water...
From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods...
...troops which were not his closed in upon Peking last week "President" Yen proclaimed his resignation, withdrew to Shansi with a loyal army. After him scuttled his whilom "Prime Minister," the recently proud and pompous Wang Ching-wei. Strapping Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, ally of Yen, famed master of "the largest private army in the world," covered the ex-Presidential rear...
...such times a troupe of performing politicians is needed. War Lord Yen had imported 15 from Nanking, capital of "Nationalist" President Chiang Kaishek. Headed by Wang Ching-wei, leader of the Left faction at Nanking, the 15 troupers announced (after the band had ceased to squeal and groan) that President Yen is today the true "Nationalist," that "Nationalist" President Chiang is no longer a "Nationalist...