Word: bund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrived off the Hankow bund, spruce Marshal Chiang prudently debarked through a double file of his famed Wampoa cadets, the best antidote in China to assassination. Far into the night he studied maps, despatches, tried to gauge the strategy and numbers of the so-called "People's Army" which for several months has been advancing slowly southward along the railway from the region of Peiping (once Peking). Next day the president set off by armored train for the battle area, near Chengohow. Subsequent despatches reported quaintly that "the Nationalist forces are holding their own but are not advancing...
Eight college-educated young Chinawomen, serious, zealous, patriotic, paraded solemnly down the bund or riverside at Hankow, Nationalist capital, last week. The tallest walked first, carrying a placard atop a bamboo pole, and wearing only large shell-rimmed glasses. The seven others, were more scantily clad. The placard read...
...Pamiat Lenina swung away from the bund at Shanghai, slowly churned her steadygoing way up the great river Yangtze. Mme. Borodin left her cabin and stood on the bridge with the Captain...
Jack Down. Two days later a larger mob stormed the barricades of the British concession, tore them down in many places, ventured onto the Bund, screaming: "Down with British Imperialism! Kill the Britishmen...