Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting in China began last fortnight in the southwestern suburbs of Peiping between Japanese troops engaged in war games and the Chinese forces of General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting...
...death was personally ordered by the local military satrap, General Sung Cheh-yuan. Shackled behind a motor car, the prisoner was dragged through the streets of Peiping while buglers blew their loudest and policemen beat up anyone who tried to use a camera. End came near the Peiping garbage dump. There 10,000 people watched the frost-nipped Lu Ju-hsin as he was forced to a kneeling position. Up behind him stepped a snappy Chinese soldier, placed the muzzle of a pistol against the back of the prisoner's head, killed him with a single bullet...
...thanks to Associated Pressman White for putting Christian Yao Chen-yuan back on his pious pedestal.-ED. Reviewing General...
...your information, I enclose the most recent photo of General Sung Cheh-yuan which I took yesterday at the general's review of his troops. Also for your information-a number of people who know something about North China and its personages have transferred the "goatbeard" of your General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, Dec. 9) to the chin of your Foreign News editor. . . . NORMAN T. H. SOONG...
...Photographer Soong, for cornering difficult General Sung Cheh-yuan with a camera, all credit.-ED. Interesting Day Sirs...