Word: cantonment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner's song, written and sung in quavery, North China dialect by Canton-born William Yun. (Yun was jailed six weeks ago for working the badger game on a wealthy countryman named...
Hong Kong was once a valve controlling the flow of fabulous trade out of South China. Then the Japanese got a valve of their own farther up the pipe at Canton, and Hong Kong became a comparatively dead city. It is still one of the most beautiful ports in the world-its harbor is like a Wedgwood plate full of sugar buns-but it is now a negligible trade centre, and Britain plans to abandon it at the drop of a bomb...
Kiangsi-"West of the (Yangtze) River"-lies in Southeastern China, at the centre of the triangle formed by Shanghai, Hankow, Canton. With neighboring Hunan it forms a natural corridor of parallel rivers and ridges from Central to Southern and Southwestern China. Chinese colonists, early British explorers like Macartney in 1793 and Amherst in 1816, the wildfire Nationalist Armies in 1926-27, the trunk line of the Peking-Hankow-Canton railway-all chose the corridor for their routes. And so, last week, did the Japanese Army...
With eleven meets scheduled for the coming season, Coach Peterson is watching the squad closely. Among the candidates are free-stylers Darcy Curwen of Exeter, whose older brother, Jim, is a sprint star on the Varsity team, William Stires of Lehman High, Canton, Ohio, and Frank Gorman of University School, Cleveland. William Drucker, former New Trier Township High back-stroker, and Colin Houston of Exeter, a breastroker, are other aspirants for the '43 squad...
Meantime a tiny city is abuilding on Canton Island, only overnight stop not yet ready for guests. Last week a freighter steamed south with equipment for a 24-room transients' hotel, including an air-conditioning system, bar, shower baths...