Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rural battle line bent back, Chinese General Sun Yuan-liang, seeing it had become impossible to hold Chapei, ordered what remained of this heavily bombed and shelled Chinese shambles to be set afire. Hurling sulphur and other incendiary materials, Chinese firebugs heroically raised an immense pall of smoke over Chapei beneath which the Chinese defenders executed in the night what foreign military experts in Shanghai called one of the most orderly and efficient retreats ever made in Oriental warfare. Stimulating to morale throughout China was the staying behind in a Chapei warehouse of 500 Chinese troops of "Chiang...
...Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up which the Chinese were supposed to be coming and impudently bombed the important city of Paoting. In a further provoking challenge to Dictator Chiang, Japanese obtained the resignation of his subordinate commanding in North China, General Sung Cheh-yuan, and set up in his stead General Chang Tsu-chung. As mayor of Tientsin, he was approved by the Japanese and so far as Tokyo knows he is "loyal." Thus last week a Chinese tool of Japan was set up in Peiping as the executive of a piece of China...
Miss Lathrop and Mrs. Jones were thus treated in just about the same way as were Chinese troops of the 2Qth Army commanded by Peiping General Sung Cheh-yuan this week. Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki grew tired of what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese...
...Shantung were concerned and returned to Japan in semi-disgrace. His intrigue had succeeded, however, in bringing into semi-autonomous existence a Chinese regime more or less under Japan's thumb which is now governing Hopei and Chahar. An able, ambiguous and shrewd Chinese, General Sung Cneh-yuan, heads this regime known as the "Hopei-Chahar Political Council," and it was his troops who last week fought with valiant "broadswords" in obscure villages and lolled about in Tientsin railway stations...
General Sung Cheh-Yuan himself was busy all week "negotiating" with Japanese Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki. What the two of them were actually doing was waiting around to see whether General Sung's nominal superiors, the Nanking Government, were really sending north "Chiang's Own" and were in earnest about war with Japan or whether instead Nanking would tolerate the setting up of General Sung's territory as "another kuo," that is, as a Japanese puppet state, per-haps to be called Huapeikuo ("North China Country...