Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half China. Within the space of two full moons his armies have swarmed up from the . South Chinese Bolshevik region of Canton and overwhelmed the whole Central Chinese Yangtze valley. Before he left Canton, War Lord Chang Kai-shek prophesied that he would capture the great industrial city of Wuchang on the Yangtze in time to celebrate there the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Chinese Republican Revolution. The city fell (TIME, Oct. 18) on the very day prophesied by Chang, and last week he meted out to the starvation-worn Wuchangese the quixotic terms of a typically Chinese...
Peace terms: 1) Each Wuchangese soldier who possesses a gun will be welcomed into the army of Chang Kaishek. 2) The merchants of Wuchang will be required to pay to Chang the "back pay" owed to these soldiers and their future maintenance in his armies...
...soldiers who defended themselves in Wuchang (and only incidentally defended Wuchang itself) seized the city in the first place as the hired mercenaries of War Lord Wu Pei-fu (now fled), who certainly owes them whatever "back pay" may be their...
...Though the Wuchangese merchants must pay to Chang Kaishek, the "wages" of soldiers whom they never hired, he will undoubtedly keep the "pay" of his new soldiers himself and encourage them to forage for themselves by looting in Wuchang and wherever else they may be quartered...
Mopping up. Of the two commanders who had defended Wuchang, General Liu Yu-chun was dragged from the house of Dr. A. M. Sherman, Principal of the Central China University, where he had taken refuge; and General Chen Kaimu, onetime Governor of Hupeh province was seized as he fled Wuchang in coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion...