Word: amoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of the Chinese-has been an absence of victory announcements. Last week a badly needed Japanese victory was supplied when twelve Japanese warships, 20 warplanes and a landing party of 1,000 sailors and marines planted the Rising Sun flag on the important, poorly defended island of Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing for a push in South China to cut off Chiang Kai-shek's munitions route, most observers believed that Japan wanted an easy victory to announce at home and that the restless, jealous Japanese Navy...
HONG KONG-Chinese press dispatches from Amoy reported today that the Chinese forces defending the great Fukien port city were prepared to burn it to the ground before surrendering it to the Japanese...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
...blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed to Canton at a moment's notice...
Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...