Word: weis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese named Chou Fu-hai last week made himself the most important personage-if a straw man can ever be more than an effigy of importance-in the Japanese-controlled Nanking regime of Puppet Wang Ching-wei. He is Nanking's Minister of Finance. His importance was not due to his talents or virtues; it was due to the simple fact that the war in China, having reached a stalemate militarily, had become primarily an economic war. If the Nanking Government can pay for itself and for the Japanese Army of Occupation as well, Japan will have...
...Japanese had the white inhabitants of Shanghai in check, they still did not have good control of the Chinese. Puppet President Wang Ching-wei's Central China Daily News serves as an organ of Japanese propaganda. In it last week-between the lines of a gambling-house advertisement-a Chinese compositor had set the words: "Down with the traitor Wang Ching-wei...
...Nanking, capital of Puppet Wang Ching-wei's National Government, Lieut. General Nobuyuki Abe, who is occupied China's real ruler, at long last went through the formality of recognizing Wang's regime. The day before, a bomb had gone off under a train in Soochow station, but the Chinese who planted the bomb got the wrong train and killed 100 of their countrymen. A few hours later General Abe's train went through safely to Nanking, where student agitators demonstrated against the Japanese and 3,000 policemen chose that time to strike for more wages...
There were four main areas of Chinese push. Up north in Shansi a Chinese force of 20,000 was at work. In central China, near Nanking, Chinese mercenary troops of the Japanese puppet Wang Ching-wei reportedly revolted, blew up two Japanese troop trains and attacked several small villages. A Chinese force also attacked the town of Langsi and "liquidated all of the Japanese defenders." Farther south, only 100 miles from Shanghai, another Chinese Army forced its way across the Chientang River. In the extreme southwest, whence the Japanese carelessly drained troops for the investment of Indo-China, some...
...terrorists who serve either the Japanese or their Chinese puppet, Wang Ching-wei, have bombed the Post plant five times, slaughtered guards, wounded pressmen, and last month murdered Samuel H. Chang, director of the Post and its Chinese edition...