Word: chapei
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...glorious news last week from Shanghai where a Japanese squadron is commanded by his brother Rear Admiral Sadasuke Araki. The glorious news: somebody had murdered a Japanese Marine in full uniform near the Japanese Naval headquarters. At this news in utter panic rich & poor Chinese alike fled from Chapei in the native quarter of Shanghai to the International Settlement which proved safe in 1932 when the Japanese blew Chapei to bloody smithereens. If the Araki Brothers were at it again, then woe to China, no matter who murdered the Japanese Marine. As a matter of course, Admiral Araki assumed...
...Shanghai from the U. S. to marry a handsome and fiery missionary. Two accidents occur. The young lady sees her rickshaw boy brutally run down by a Chinese brigand-general; her marriage ceremony is delayed because the missionary has to rescue six children from an orphanage in besieged Chapei. During the rescue, the young woman is kidnapped by the brigand-general who ran over the coolie. General Yen (Nils Asther) whisks Megan Davis to his summer palace, dresses her in pajamas, holds a mass execution of prisoners-of-war under her bedroom window and makes advances toward her with pagan...
...Robison was smashed by an army truck (TIME, March 14). Commissioner Robison was punched in the face. Japan paid the garage bill and cut the truck driver's salary. Miss Rose Marlowe was severely beaten by a civilian reservist when she attempted to enter the ruins of Chapei. The reservist was sentence to 15 days in jail. China and Japan were still deadlocked over peace terms. Firing on the Shanghai front had almost ceased. The League of Nations Commission arrived, was taken for a drive through the ruins of Chapei. Soldiers of the 31st U. S. Infantry on duty...
...announced Sir John's peace proposal meant little to the Chinese and Japanese in the line. Twice in 24 hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...Japanese bombardment of the Chapei district next began, was answered by Chinese field pieces of surprising power. Mounted on a railway car a Chinese eight-inch gun dashed up and down. It scored few hits but barely missed the Japanese flagship and other warboats (some neutral) in the harbor. Zipping up, a lone Chinese airman in a lone U. S. Boeing pursuit plane rashly disputed Japanese mastery of the air, wounded a Japanese ace before he was shot down...