Word: formosae
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...Haiphong-Kunming railway might carry if Indo-China should by any chance allow troops to cross her territory. Merchants arrived lugging the Oriental equivalents of carpetbags. Three destroyers lay off the port of Haiphong. A large fleet, including no less than 18 troop transports, sped South Seawards from Formosa, destination unknown but possibly to help supervise traffic through Indo-China. Japanese closed the French-leased South China port of Kwangchowan, 150 miles from Indo-China...
...Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, amiable little Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, trotted around to No. 9 Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were...
...Jehol. 2. French Indo-China. 3. Titi-Pu. 4. Formosa. 5. Spratly Islands...
Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
Four days after the bombing of Formosa, Associated Press flashed from Hankow, where Chinese Government censors handle every dispatch, the news that Secretary General of Aviation, Mme Chiang, "is authoritatively understood to be relinquishing the position. The strain of war-time duties is generally known to have taxed her health and this probably will be given as the reason for her resignation in the near future." Actually during the past month Mme Chiang has been diving quietly in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, leaving the active command of what she always called "my airforce" to others...