Word: yun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the bleak little Siberian town of Habarovsk flashed news last week of an informal meeting between one Tsai Yun-shen, representing China-and one Simbn-ovsky, Soviet. Deploring the Sino-Russian dispute, they signed a peace protocol. The terms: Immediate restoration of joint management of the Chinese Eastern Railway (cause of all the strife); withdrawal of the Soviet army from Manchuria; mutual release of civilian and military prisoners; mutual reopening of consulates; a formal conference at Moscow, Jan. 25, to settle all questions still under dispute. World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda...
Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
Died. Wang Sun Yun, great grandson of the onetime Emperor of Korea, a self-supporting student at Hastings College; at Hastings, Neb., of Banti's disease (an affliction of the liver, spleen, blood...
...only local influence as Military Governor of Chekiang province. Recently he boldly proclaimed the five provinces now within his grasp to be an independent state. Last week it was discovered that he was plotting against the Peking forces with Super-Tuchun Wu's most trusted henchman, General Chin Yun...
...Chinese situation is beginning to assume world importance, and deserves a great deal of consideration by statesmen of today. The present government under the acting presidency of Li Yun-Hung is maintaining over a million soldiers under arms. What the outcome of the internal fighting will be is unknown, but it is going to be of immense importance to the world. How soon it will be important depends on how rapidly a new and lasting unity is achieved. That this unity will take the form of a democracy, I have no doubt. The Chinese have never believed in the Divine...