Word: taishan
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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China's war was staged in China's best known province, Shantung, once dominated by Germans (1897-1914), later by Japanese (1914-22) but always the everlasting pediment of Confucius' "Sacred Mountain," Taishan. What made Shantung's war authentic and hair-raising last week was the fact-that China's two best & boldest younger War Lords were pitching into each other with such fury that they were actually paying their troops. In China, where thousands of unpaid soldiers wander around with oilpaper umbrellas (their only tents), stealing handfuls of rice and waiting for their officers to be bribed, such energy...