Word: chinwangtao
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Have managed to pick up or read (at American clubs usually) all copies up to Oct. 4. Amazing where one finds TIME. . . . Up at the KMA Compound, at Chinwangtao for instance; only there, two of the Jap Conquerors were reading the only issues available. ... On the S.S. Kaiping for instance. She's a stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were...
...From Chinwangtao, the seaside resort just below the Great Wall, to Singapore, the big British naval base at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, the coast of Eastern Asia rumbled last week with warlike activity. At Tientsin Japanese soldiers tightened their two-weeks-old blockade on the British Concession; at Chefoo and Tsingtao Japanese officials sponsored anti-British demonstrations; at Shanghai British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr was surrounded with a heavy guard after "terrorists" had threatened his life; the Japanese captured one Chinese port, closed another, attacked two more (Foochow, Wenchow); at Hong Kong British troops...
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, received the ultimatum on his flagship the cruiser Augusta, anchored off Chinwangtao, some 1,500 miles North, where he had gone after a brief inspection trip to Tientsin. He replied by 1) ordering the Pillsbury to remain, 2) dispatching another destroyer, the Pope, to the spot. The British seconded the U. S. by not only keeping the Thanet at Swatow but by sending the Scout to join her. Nothing happened to the ships, nor to any of the U. S. or British nationals ashore...
...emissary from Chiang, presumably to dicker for peace. Word reached Tientsin last week of a Chinese army marching parallel to and cooperating with the Japanese troops. Its commander is a General Li Lichen who raised the old five-barred flag, first flag of the Chinese Republic, in Chinwangtao in March, is supposed to have been picked by Japan to head still another North China puppet state. This one's name would be HOPEIKUO...
...interesting commentary upon the uncertainty of all news from China came to light when the seemingly definite fact was reported that the railway between Chinwangtao and Peking had been "completely cut by insurgent soldiery." Next day 200 U. S. tourists were landed at Chinwangtao from the globe-circling SS. Carinthia. Their indomitable conductor chartered a train and started out over the supposedly obliterated railway. By the aid of a little palm oil he persuaded the detachments of soldiery along the way to replace such segments of the track as they had torn up and carried into the woods. Triumphantly...