Word: haichow
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...Germany they would have been sent to jail. In Russia they might have been shot. In Japan they would have had their passports snatched and lengthily detained. But in polite Haichow their cameras were merely smashed to bits and they were left free to continue sightseeing...
Pride of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are the series of great airports which his Nationalist Government is building across north and central China. A new one was nearing completion last week at Haichow, 250 miles north of Shanghai and at the very edge of the Japanese sphere of influence. Out to see the new airport went a trainload of tourists, among whom were 18 toothy, smiling little Japanese in civilian clothes. Sentries met them at the wire gates, guides were assigned to show them around. Hissing polite appreciation, the Japanese went everywhere, promptly unloaded a battery of cameras and began...
Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...
Admiral Lin of the "independent" Chinese Navy bowed to U. S. Consul General Cunningham at Shanghai and said he was sorry that the Chinese gunboat Haichow had fired upon an American merchantman last December. Captain Hsu of the Haichow also apologized...