Word: yulin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good as goldmines are the warm oases of chill, bleak, mountainous Jehol, the buffer province between "China Proper" and "Manchuria Proper." Spouting hot springs make the oases ideal for growing opium. Opium has made vastly rich the Governor of Jehol, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week Tang's strapping big North Chinese soldiers on their small, shaggy Mongolian ponies, jogged down precipitous mountain passes to pot shot at the mighty clanking War Machine of Imperial Japan as it debouched from the railway...
Tang-in-the-Woodpile. Close observers realized that what was chiefly at stake last week was the loyalty of General Tang Yulin, the biggest boss in Eastern Inner Mongolia, who rules as Governor in Jehol...