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...week passed without Chino-Foreign clashes at Shanghai, while white missionaries streamed out of the interior, to be picked up and carried to safety by warships of the Great Powers continually steaming up and down such major rivers as the Yangtze. No Occidentals were killed in China last week but there were doubtful signs that the lull only proceeded a storm of international intervention...
This was that the Cabinet would not pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
...Yoshiwara. No sooner was Tokyo laid waste by the earthquake of 1923 than the principal architects of Japan were commissioned to rebuild the Yoshiwara -a task which was completed before any other quarter of the city had been fully rebuilt. For the new Yoshiwara a harmonious Chino-Japanese style of architecture was devised- described by the North China Daily News as the most artistic to be employed in rebuilding Tokyo...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
...basis of these charges M. Tchitcherin sent a threatening telegram to Super-Tuchun Chang demanding the release of M. Ivanoff "within three days" and observance of the Chino-U. S. S. R. treaties, which guarantee Chinese non-interference with the railway in question...