Word: yat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YAT-SEN-Lyon Sharman-John Day ($3.50). Full-dress biography of China's Washington...
...their ships to the Puppet State Manchukuo. but Japan who tweaks the puppet's strings has a real navy, refused to bid. Disgruntled, the mutineers turned south. They remembered that in 1917 the same three ships sold out to the Canton faction of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen for $60,000. Perhaps Canton might be in a buying mood again...
...General Chen to turn over their ships- caused three more Chinese war boats, all midgets, to break away from the Northeastern squadron and streak for Canton. This was too much for Generalissimo Chiang. Since the newly mutinous ships were so very small, he ordered the three-year-old cruiser Yat-sen (China's newest) to leave Shanghai on a "mystery cruise," presumably to intercept the midgets...
...first engagements were successful. Districts were recaptured and officers went about the business of returning communized farm lands to their old landlords. Then up rose the 8,000 recruits. Were they not fighting for the Nationalist Government? Does not the Nationalist Government revere the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen as a hero and patron saint? Is not one of Dr. Sun's first principles the restoration of land to the peasants...
...been said that soldiers enlist in the Chinese army because it is the surest way for the lower class man to avoid starvation. When China was declared a republic in 1912 under Sun Yat Sen, a civil war began which has not yet been terminated. Hope was expressed that a common fee in the person of Japan would cause the hostile factions to unite, but local rivalries which make any concentrated action impossible still exist. Despite the fact that China has been practically without one central government for years, taxes are collected regularly, police duty is performed...