Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Independence Day last week gallant Generalissimo & Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek drove boldly down the main streets of Hankow, reviewing 80,000 Chinese among whom might easily have lurked a Japanese-paid assassin. Chicago Daily News's A.T. Steele cabled: "This was one of the Generalissimo's few public appearances...one of his most courageous gestures....Throngs composed of clerks, laborers, students and others who have been mobilized to assist in the defense of Hankow stood silent and awed as the Generalissimo and his wife drove by in an open...
Severance of this line cut the main artery over which munitions purchased by Chinese in Europe and shipped into Hong Kong have eventually reached Generalissimo Chiang-the 700-mile Canton-Hankow Railway. At week's end Japanese contingents landed on both sides of the Pearl River delta, one column slashing communications between Canton and Portuguese Macao on the coast, another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong...
...edged to within 60 miles of Sienning, on the Hankow-Canton Railway 70 miles south of the capital. The main Japanese force, supported by the navy, threatened heavily fortified Tienchiachen, in the narrow gorges of the Yangtze River 100 miles below Hankow. At week's end Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's best troops withstood a second heavy Japanese assault at this point. The capture of Tienchiachen would almost certainly cause Hankow's fall in short order...
Hankow remained calm last week, while her foreign language radio program "Voice of China" radiated confidence in Chinese arms. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appealed to Chinese Manchukuoans to transform that Japanese-dominated state into a "graveyard for the Japanese." About 4,500 junks, including sailing boats, tug boats and sampans-capable of transporting 80,000 tons freight-manned by 16,000 boatmen earning 30? a day, worked feverishly to complete the evacuation of the three Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang...
...President Henry Noble MacCracken named the five Most Intelligent Women in the World: Angelica Balanbanoff, internationalist, author of My Life As a Rebel (TIME, Aug. 1); Halidé Edib, Turkish patriot, onetime Professor of Western Literature at Istanbul University; Sarojini Naidu, Indian poetess, friend & adviser of Mahatma Gandhi; Mme Chiang Kaishek, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt...