Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled by the report that Japanese were outside the walls of Changsha, midway between Hankow and Canton, zealous city officials last week hurried to carry out their "scorched earth" policy (to destroy everything of value to the invaders). They made the mistake of forgetting to warn the populace in time. Fire roared through the city so fast that thousands of families were trapped. Firefighters struggled for five days before the flames were brought under control. Some 2,000 Chinese were burned to death, more injured...
...plea, the Executive Council made the first sacrifice, a decision not to send a Chinese exhibition to New York's 1939 World's Fair because of the "uncertainties of transportation." The supreme sacrifice was made by General Yu Han-mou, charged with the collapse of Canton's defenses, who was erroneously reported to have surrendered to the Japanese after the city's fall. According to Japanese reports, he was executed by the Chinese...
Japanese troops continued to press out from Hankow, where some 5,300 captured Chinese soldiers are soon to erect a memorial to commemorate the Japanese conquest. At week's end Japanese forces, driving southward along the Canton-Hankow rail line, had captured the strategic city of Yochow, 122 miles southwest of Hankow, and the northeastern gateway to Hunan Province where Chiang Kai-shek has established new military headquarters...
...Thaddeus V. Strezynski, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Jesse B. Thomas, Georgetown, Mass., Orson H. Thomas, Cambridge, Mass., Robert F. Thurrell Jr., Wolfeboro, N.H., Lester H. Tobin, Lynn, Mass., John E. Tully, Boston, Mass., Kenneth R. Volkman, West Somerville, Mass., Thomas H. White, Cambridge, Mass., William H. Wood Jr., Canton, Mass...
...Daughaday Jr. '40, of Winnetka, Illinois; Edward M. Davis Jr. '40, of Winter Park, Florida; Joseph T. Doyle '39, of Providence; Charles D. Duffy Jr. '39, of South Jacksonville, Florida; Richard D. Edwards '41, of Pittsburgh; Warick E. Elrod Jr. '39, of Atlanta, Georgia; William E. Ernst '41, of Canton, Ohio; Sheridan S. Evans '41, of Zeigler, Illinois...