Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auxiliaries: Canton, Southern Prince, Bulolo, Montclare, Alaunia...
Down from the north came Japanese columns, paralleling the strategic Hankow-Canton railway on both sides (see map). They meant business. Five regular divisions, two hundred planes were in this shove. Last time the Japanese pushed on Changsha the Chinese destroyed the roads, encircled the attackers, forced them into disastrous retreat. This time the Japanese brought with them six full regiments of engineers. Communications with the rear were to be kept open at all costs...
...fashion the decade had set. A bomb wrecked the Japanese-operated radio station at Shanghai. Two Japanese merchants were shot in the International Settlement there. A bomb let go in Nanking's Central Railway Station, killing eight people. Four bombs commemorated Jo Ee Ba in Canton. The right-side-up nations on the other side of the earth, who so loved peace in 1931, no longer remember either Jo Ee Ba or peace...
Andrew Fo Ing, Honolulu, T. H.; Fred L. Jaquith, Brighton, Mass.; Joseph J. Koss, Chicago, Ill.; James J. Murphy, Dublin, Calif.; Robert W. Painter, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jesse L. Perry Jr., Nashville, Tenn.; Robert C. Rice, Mount Airy, Md., John L. Robins, Canton, N. Y.; Edward M. Rollins, Bristol, Tenn.; Albert E. Selenkow, Baltimore, Md.; Donald A. Starr, Butler, Pa.; Maurice A. Tenenbaum, Louisville, Ky.; Donald P. Watkins, Detroit, Mich.; and William G. Wright, Winnetka...
Undaunted, Louis plans to match strokes with the big shots once more: in the coveted Negro Open to be played on the Ponkapoag course in Canton, Mass, this week. "Some day," he drawled, "I'll be the golf champ...