Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, a Japanese column tightened the net around the capital by capturing strategic Hwangchwan, north of the Yangtze. Another column captured one of a series of river booms at Wusueh, 100 miles down the river from Hankow. Meanwhile, Japanese aviators bombed away at their main objective, the Canton-Hankow Railway...
...months'-old war this line has been bombed in 1,300 places. Speedy repair work has held the periods of service interruptions to a minimum, and last week trains were still running, albeit irregularly. Most remarkable testimony to Chinese ingenuity was that the 680-mile run from Canton to Hankow has been shortened to 36 hours instead of the old 45-hour schedule. Moreover, in spite of war, and because of heavy war supply shipment, the line made money; net profit last fiscal year...
...clashes" was fantastic. But neither Russia nor Japan wants open war. Both prefer to fight a little at a time as convenient. Chinese, whose air force today consists largely of Soviet-built planes, credited Russia with creating a diversion which last week led the worried Japanese to cease bombing Canton, gave that gory, undefended metropolis four days of respite...
...Yenching University in Peiping, Lingnan University in Canton, Hua Chung College in Wu-chang. West China Union University in Chengtu, Hwa Nan College and Fukien Christian University in Foochow, Cheeloo University in Tsinan, University of Nanking and Ginling College in Nanking, and St. John's University, University of Shanghai, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian College in the Shanghai area. This does not include Rockefeller Foundation's Peiping Union Medical College, various Catholic institutions (European as well as U. S.-supported...
...south, completely undefended Canton reeked with gore and horror as the Japanese, day after day, bombed the vast metropolis from which not so much as a rusty Chinese musket cracked against them last week. Nauseated newshawks tied handkerchiefs soaked in deodorants across their faces as they prowled about Canton streets strewn with decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down...