Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. ¶ Comparative order was restored on the arrival of the Nationalist General Pai Tsung-hsi, Chief of Staff to the great Nationalist War Lord Chiang Kai-shek (sea below). General Pai received the British, French and Japanese consuls-the U. S. consul pointedly absenting himself. Soon the Chinese commander issued a proclamation calling upon Chinese not to molest foreigners; but in it occurred indiscreetly the term "world revolution" which was caught up and bandied by correspondents (see above). ¶ General Pai said to newsgatherers: "The Nationalist movement...
Soon they had broken into the U. S., British and Japanese consulates, robbed, glutted. All the foreign houses except those of Ginling College were looted-the college escaping because a young Nationalist soldier who had a sister studying there arrived with a detachment to guard the campus. ¶ The Japanese suffered most. Several women servants at their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms...
...consul, his wife and their children hastily set out with other refugees for an eminence known to ancient Chinese poets as The Purple Mountain and to moderns as Socony* Hill. Arrangements had already been made that U. S. and British warships in the harbor would lay a barrage to protect this valuable property-the signal for the barrage to be a rocket...
...Consul John Ker Davis, eleven U. S. marines and 24 refugees barely managed to gain Socony Hill, under a running fire from Chinese snipers. Marine Plumley alone was wounded, but was able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese...
...notes exchanged last week state: 1) that the former modus vivendi, recently expired, is extended by mutual consent to June 1, 1928; 2) that the U. S. High Commissioner will be supplanted by a U. S. ambassador and a consul "as soon as possible...