Word: changchow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
...fought for four days last week over broken country, lost more than 2.000 men, two regimental commanders. General Tsai retreated to fortifications near Lungyen, only 100 mi. northwest of the important seaport of Amoy. Falling back again from Lungyen, he called for reinforcements. The Communist horde billowed on toward Changchow, 30 mi. from Amoy. Refugees streaming into Amoy brightened at sight of a U. S. gunboat in the harbor, at news that 50,000 reinforcements had been sent General Tsai. Before the reinforcements arrived. General Tsai and his 19th Route Army pulled themselves together, turned and smashed the advancing Communists...
...China's Red Spot, the nucleus of self-styled "Soviet Republics" which have been slowly growing in southern China (TIME, April 27, 1931) reached the sea at last when Chinese Communists last week captured the important east coast city of Changchow. capital of Fukien Province...
...social sanity." Law-abiding Londoners, aghast at a crime directed against "the American approximation of the Prince of Wales," could not understand why a Prince of Wales would leave his much-publicized infant unguarded. President Ortiz Rubio ordered the Mexican Army to watch the border for the kidnappers. The Changchow Merchants' Guild of Peiping sent sympathy. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also prayed, as did Philadelphia Lutherans, New Jersey Methodists. Crowds in Buenos Aires watched bulletins, took...