Word: dairen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Hanson was that he was a Bridgeport, Conn. boy who studied engineering at Cornell, who, just out of college, in 1909, shipped to China as a student interpreter. He turned into one of the ablest consular officers the U. S. ever had. He served at Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Tientsin, Newchang, Swatow. Chungking and Foochow. He mastered Chinese dialects, Japanese, Russian. At Christmas 1921 he was moved to Harbin in troublesome Manchuria, a consular post he occupied for 13 years. Never a slender tea-party diplomat but a hearty 250-lb. Yankee, he did business in an effective Yankee fashion...
...action at 5 a. m. 96 gangs had the entire 150 miles of track narrowed to S. M. R. gauge in three hours. According to Mr. Matsuoka, his all-steel, air-conditioned, streamlined Asia Express will now average 63 m. p. h. up the 600-mile spear from Dairen to Harbin...
...rough, sprawling Harbin, Manchuria swarmed with intrigue-Chinese v. Russians, Japanese v. Chinese, Russians v. Japanese, White Russians v. Red Russians, bandits v. everybody. Into this hotbed, as U. S. Consul, stepped George Charles Hanson, huge, round, genial and imperturbable as a sculptured Buddha. In Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka...
...white pirates on the Yellow Sea. Ever since this revelation the four Germans and the Swiss have denied their guilt, trying to get their case appealed to a higher Japanese court. Last week their defense counsel, the Mayor of Port Arthur, argued crushingly in the Superior Court at Dairen, "There is no Japanese law covering piracy. The defendants can only be punished for having entered Dairen illegally...
...denying Mayor Yoneoka's piratical point,* the prosecution argued that anyhow the Death penalty must be meted out, "because otherwise a bad example would be set," encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been...