Word: amoy
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...against the Japanese, commanded by hollow-cheeked General Tsai Ting-kai. Outnumbered, the 19th Route Army fought for four days last week over broken country, lost more than 2.000 men, two regimental commanders. General Tsai retreated to fortifications near Lungyen, only 100 mi. northwest of the important seaport of Amoy. Falling back again from Lungyen, he called for reinforcements. The Communist horde billowed on toward Changchow, 30 mi. from Amoy. Refugees streaming into Amoy brightened at sight of a U. S. gunboat in the harbor, at news that 50,000 reinforcements had been sent General Tsai. Before the reinforcements arrived...
...Tsingtao but the creaking old war boats put on their best speed. They had to pass Shanghai, where the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek keeps its apology for a navy, but that offered no fight, simply ignored the mutineers. Wallowing on toward Canton they stopped at Amoy-in case the heroic 19th Route Army now stationed there should want to buy a navy...
...disease, which is always skulking in China, would be especially virulent this year. Some 500,000 Chinese contracted the disease, some 150,000 died (Dr. Jordan's estimate). Last July Dr. Robert Watson Hart, chief of the American Oriental Quarantine Service, saw "20 funerals in 20 minutes at Amoy...
...Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...
...Shanghai, Hongkong, Calcutta, Swatow, Madras, Bombay, Bankok, Amoy and Fu-chau he has great oil storage tanks. Standard Oil has similar stores...