Word: fukien
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...China's Red Spot, the nucleus of self-styled "Soviet Republics" which have been slowly growing in southern China (TIME, April 27, 1931) reached the sea at last when Chinese Communists last week captured the important east coast city of Changchow. capital of Fukien Province...
...promise to march inland from Nanking and exterminate China's Communist Generals or personally die in the attempt. But last week Chiang's Government admitted that the Communist Generals have recently "slaughtered or otherwise disposed of 20.000 Government troops in a series of encounters in Kiangsi. Hunan and Fukien provinces." Promiser Chiang promised to send 200,000 troops to rout the Reds...
...ominous. China is in slow ferment, with Russia helping the brew. So slow is the ferment that last week the American Congregational Mission got tired of waiting for a stable Chinese Government to emerge, ended a work of 50 years, withdrew all their missionaries from the province of Fukien. excepting Foochow, abandoned much property bought with U. S. dollars, abandoned their hospital at Shaowu...
...Kidnapped 85 miles from Foochow, in Fukien Province, last week while en route to consecrate a new church were aged and ailing Bishop Manuel Prat and Father Alfonso Andres, Spanish Dominicans. "We very much doubt," said a Spanish mission spokesman, "whether our beloved Bishop can possibly survive the rigors of captivity...
FRANK M. TOOTHAKER The Yenping Mission Methodist Episcopal Church Yenping City, Fukien China...