Word: fukien
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...lowa; Louis A. Carapella, of Tuckahoe, New York; Quang Tou Chang, of Kiangsu, China; William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas; Alden P. Edson, of Lawrence, Kansas; Daniel J. Faustman, of Sacramento, California; Charles D. Gates, of Asburnham; Emil C. Jensen, of Burlington, Washington; 1-Lun Liu, of Fukien, China; Clifford M. Mast, of Davenport; Iowa; Iwao Miyake, of Honolulu, Hawait., Charles T. Morrow, of Cloucester...
...twofold: To give instruction in the language, literature and history of China, Japan and contiguous countries, and to carry on research work in China through grants in financial aid to six of the universities which have been established by Americans in that country: Yenching University, Shantung Christian University, Fukien Christian University, West China Union University, Lingnan University and the University of Nanking...
...Chiang Kai-shek's party when 40 members of the Nationalist Central Executive Committee arrived in Nanking last week for their fourth congress. A month ago, with six revolts crackling under him, Chiang looked like a heavy loser. Picking the key revolt, he cracked down hard on the Fukien rebels headed by smart Trinidad-born Eugene Chen and General Tsai Ting-kai's famed 19th Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced...
Tipped off by the local U. S. Consul, who had been tipped off by China's Nanking Government, 144 U. S. residents of Foochow, capital of rebel Fukien Province, last week scuttled out to a cheerless island in Foochow's River Min. At Amoy 125 mi. to the south the U. S. colony scuttled to another island...
Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...