Word: foochow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foochow, about 400 miles southwest from Shanghai in the Province of Fukien. A general strike was declared. All business came to a halt...
Canton, about 500 miles southwest from Foochow in the extreme southerly Province of Kwangtung. The war which was declared between the Kuo Mintang and Yimnanese factions (TIME, June 15) ended in a speedy victory for the radical Kuo Mintang (the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's party). Thereafter followed bloody executions of Yiinnanese soldiers who had surrendered unarmed. Most of the foreigners had been evacuated to Hong-Kong. Those that remained in Shamien, the foreign settlement, were unmolested, but could see the wholesale murder, arson and rape committed by the blood-thirsty Kuo Mintang. No doubt remained but that...
...Students' Union at Foochow declared a boycott against U. S. herring...
...Chinese boys love to play just as much as American boys. All they lack is the opportunity. Give them a chance at basketball and in a remarkably short time they acquire the same speed as American boys. Our Union Theological Seminary team won the Foochow city championship last fall, and I would back them against any seminary team in America...
...porch nights so the boys can get it at daylight and use our private court before breakfast. I never dreamed that volley ball could be so exciting and full of sport until I came to China. In fact, it is the most popular sport among the schoolboys of Foochow, and its simplicity has attracted the majority of our students to engage...