Word: wens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese generals in the north were not so sure. Reports reached Tientsin that a new "Western Expedition" of 3,000 Japanese troops was sweeping from conquered Jehol province into Chahar Province, Inner Mongolia. Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries...
...councils which comprise the Nanking Government are called yuans. As in Russia the so-called "President" (Mr. Lin Sen) and so-called "Premier" (Mr. Wang Ching-wei) are of scant importance, effective power being centred nationally in Generalissimo Chiang and his Brother-in-law Finance Minister Dr. Sung Tse-wen, better known as T. V. Soong. Locally the Chinese people's talent for "muddling through" provides law & order under the regional dictatorships of War Lords like famed Han Fu-chu of Shantung Province (TIME...
Though he withholds the provincial revenues from Finance Minister Soong and does about as he pleases, able War Lord Han leaves Shantung's relations with the Great Powers and the League of Nations to Nanking Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan who writes & receives diplomatic notes for all China...
...sister of Concubine Shu Fei aided her suit last week, kept her comfortably at a good Peiping hotel. But most reprovingly her brother, Wen Chi, wrote...
...Anglicized Shanghai rendering of Sung Tsu-wen, preferred by Minister Soong...