Word: yu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Removal and "punishment" of General Yu Hsueh-chung, Governor of Hopei Province (containing Peiping and Tientsin), his offense having been too stiff an attitude toward Japan...
First sign that China was yielding came after Japanese demonstrations in and over Tientsin with troops, tanks and bombing planes, the latter thundering low over Tientsin's foreign concessions. Promptly Governor Yu, whose dismissal Japan had demanded, was dismissed and departed southward with his troops. Five trainloads of Government troops in Peiping were next sent south by Chinese War Minister Ho who prudently imposed iron censorship to keep the troops from knowing why they were being withdrawn, fearing they would mutiny if they knew his treachery to China. Japanese dispatches quoted China's Ho as saying privately...
...racial traitor in this oblique Japanese sense was Chinese General Shang Chen, sent to Tientsin last week to replace dismissed General Yu. General Shang popped around at once to pay a "courtesy call" on Tientsin's Japanese garrison commander. Lieut.-General Yoshijiro Umezu who hospitably opened bottle after bottle of the best champagne, put on a drinking bout with lusty toasts "to amity...
From China last week came the photographic story of another war, †the Sino-Japanese quarrel over what is now Manchukuo. Compiled by Dr. Joseph Yu. head of Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
...ROOSEVELT YEAR-Funk & Wagnalls ($2.75). †MEMORIES OF KUPEIKOW by Joseph Yu, M. I).-Liang Yon Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., Shanghai ($1 gold...