Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
...Isabel, flagship of Rear Admiral Henry Hughes Hough, churned the waters of the Yangtze River last week. Passing between Nanking and Pukow, the gunboat ran into the Chinese war. Bullets spat from both sides of the river, whistling across the decks, flattening themselves against the armor...
...went back. The firing on Nanking began the next afternoon. I cannot describe my feelings, as I watched from a gunboat while the city I had loved and called my home was being fired...
...their consulate were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms, landed from a Japanese gunboat in the harbor, and with great coolness brought 160 Japanese citizens in safety from the city. ¶ At Nanking were killed: one U. S. citizen, the Harbor Master and Mr. L. S. Smith, both Britons, one French and one Italian Catholic priest and one unidentified Japanese seaman...
...this ilk and their families arrived from Nanking at Shanghai, last week, haggard, troubled in spirit, some hatless, many in Chinese garments, some suffering from ptomaine poisoning contracted aboard their rescue ship, the U. S. gunboat...