Word: china
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...OLSSON & Co. have received from Austria a lot of hand painted Harvard china, bonbonieres, ash trays, cups, etc. I offer them at a price barely one-half of that asked for similar goods painted in this country. Look in their window...
...OLSSON & Co. have received from Austria a lot of hand painted Harvard china, bonbonieres, ash trays, cups, etc. I offer them at a price barely one-half of that asked for similar goods painted in this country. Look in their window...
...campaign from this on develops itself into an attack upon the stronghold of China in two lines - one through Manchuria to Monkden, and the other from some point on the Gulf of Pechili. Field Marshall Yamagala crossed the Yalu and defeated the Chinese at Kin Lieu Ching. His army then advanced a short distance into Manchuria, where the winter stopped their approach to Monkden...
...failure of China in this war is due to her total collapse as a sea power. She had a fair navy, which should have been used against Japan before the landing of large bodies of troops in Corea. With her sea communication cut off, Japan's army could have been starved out of Corea, and she could never have carried on a campaign in China. The Chinese had not the mechanical turn required for the modern warships. They are not essentially seamen like the Japanese. China is divided into provinces differing from one another in speech and manners. In fact...
...that national spirit is kept up by the soldiers and sailors in our country's service. It is they who spend their lives beneath the flag. That national spirit means more than a blind worship of the flag with us. When the band is assembled upon our flagships in China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness of his home dwell beneath...