Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International University Cruise Committee, which is organizing the University Afloat for American students to leave New York next September on the steamer Aurania, owned and managed by the Cunard Line. The plan is already under way and if cooperation can be established with the students in Pekin and Canton, the Chinese Floaing University will also be attempted...
...Canton government is sewn through from top to bottom with able young men who received their preparation in the United States. Only three years ago the Canton government like its sickly rival at Pekin was in financial confusion. Today, in spite of almost insuperable difficulties in the way, the budget balances, the armies are well paid, large sums are spent in effective propaganda. A Harvard man did that...
...land of his race, joining the Chinese Government service in Peking. Later he edited, and still later bought the Peking Gazette. At the close of 1917 he was in jail for writing anti-Japanese articles. Pardoned, he joined the Nationalist party of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, at Canton, and was sent to the Paris Peace Conference with the Cantonese representative, Dr. C. C. Wu. When the new Nationalist Government began its conquest of South China (TIME, April 5) he became its "Foreign Minister...
...kind of Chinaman shivered at Peking last week as thermometers read 10° below zero; but 1,200 miles southward, in Canton, quite another sort of Chinaman was as warm as a Miami mermaid. The two kinds of Chinamen could by no possibility have understood each other in Chinese, so different are their dialects. But the Yang-kuei tze ("Foreign Devil") has taught a few Chinese of every region English, especially the word "Nationalism...
...Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed last week with extra arms and ammunition for the infantry men at Tientsin. During the week the destroyer Pillsbury took off some 60 U. S. refugees, mob jostled, from Foochow, landed...