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...Amoy, picturesque port of Fukien province, opposite the Japanese island of Formosa, local Chinese merchants expressed themselves as being weary of the boycott engineered by their compatriots. They instituted attempts to lift business from its paralytic cot, to open schools this month...
Foochow, about 400 miles southwest from Shanghai in the Province of Fukien. A general strike was declared. All business came to a halt...
...athletic field but simply use the largest open space between our buildings for football and the walks around it for track. But inadequate equipment could not dampen the boys' enthusiasm to enter a winning team in the First Provincial Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in the province of Fukien. This First Provincial Meet made athletic history for us in this province. For the large majority of the thousands of spectators it was the first real demonstration of what athletics could do for Chinese youth and what a convincing and enthusiastic demonstration it was. Besides all the events of an American...
Again in 1913, an American company, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, negotiated with the Chinese Government with a view to build a naval shipyard for China with American materials and technical assistance in Fukein Province Japan projected. Fukien was claimed to be her sphere of interest, and no American can could be allowed to make such an investment. The present Japanese objection to the proposed establishment of radio stations in China by the Federal Telegraph Company of the United States further illustrates how Japan tries to close China's door to other powers except herself...
...institution in this instance is withheld on request, but will be furnished at the Appointment Office. A number of positions are open as well on the staff of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, a non-sectarian organization. The following five calls have been received from the Fukien Union University; teacher of Botany, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, General Physics, Electrical Physics. The teaching would be done in English. In view of the payment of all traveling expenses in each of the Far East positions, the period of service would be from two to three years...