Word: foochow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their reason, the Manchus began obstructing trade. Tough Merchant Jardine persuaded Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston to send in the British navy. The Manchus fought back, and the result was the 1839 Opium War, which the British won. They made a treaty by which five Chinese ports (Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Shanghai) were thrown open to world trade...
...official Communist press. New China News Agency (Communist) announced the execution of 96 persons in Canton and Kwangtung Province in a three-day period, some of them women students. The Wuhan radio (Communist) reported that in two weeks the Red army had "exterminated" more than 16,000 "local bandits." Foochow Reds announced the mass arrest of 247 "secret agents...