Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north they suffered a supreme humiliation. Governor General Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria Province capitulated through his emissaries at Nikolsk-Ussiriisk, Siberia, to the emissaries of Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovich Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General Chang humbly agreed that the Chinese Eastern Railway shall again be placed under the management of Soviet citizens, as it was before China booted out the Reds last summer (TIME, July 22). In return the Soviet Government agreed to cease propagandizing in Manchuria, but no Chinaman believed that this promise will...
...removed his headquarters from the city he was supposed to be defending to a strongly built cement factory on the opposite side of the river. Finally he sent an airplane to drop leaflets over the principal enemy force, encamped only 25 miles upstream, the famed "Ironsides Army" of General Chang Fa-K'uei (TIME, Oct. 14). The leaflets shamelessly offered following itemized bribes...
Moscow's smart move of withdrawing her armored trains stilled nearly all talk of intervention at Washington, London, Paris. But it was probably Tokyo which caused Manchuria's Chang to sue for a separate peace. Japan has huge commercial interests in Manchuria. In the past she has subsidized both Governor "Young Chang" Hsueh-Liang and his late, great father "Old Chang" Tso-Lin. She wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird...
...Harbin last week, with naked refugees pouring in, the Soviet threat loomed so potent that Governor of Manchuria Chang Hsueh-Liang decided to make a separate peace with Russia, completely disregarding the Chinese Nationalist Government at Nanking, which urged him frantically not to yield...
...Chang appointed as his peace emissary businesslike Mr. Li Shao-Kung, who was made general manager of the Chinese Eastern last July after the ousting of Soviet Manager Boris Emshanov. At no small personal risk, Mr. Li set out eastward from Harbin on his disputed railway last week, heading for Pogranichnaya, whence he would travel 500 miles north in remotest Siberia to meet the Soviet plenipotentiaries at Kobaronsk...