Word: hainan
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Britain and France, meanwhile, joined in warning Japan to stay off Hainan Island, which Japan might use as a base for an offensive against Canton and South China. Hainan is a Chinese island which lies close to the coast of French Indo-China and uncomfortably close to Britain's strategic sea route between her colonies of Singapore and Hong Kong...
Tokyo cowed Paris? The supplies of munitions moving across French Indo-China into Central China and thence to Generalissimo Chiang were halted on orders from Paris last week. Rumors that Japan had threatened to seize the Chinese island of Hainan and use it as a base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed...
...favored one, constantly companioned by such birds and beasts as cats, bats, dragonflies and a squirrel, is untransfigured by the gentleness that attends his living, hut ridden with black bile and curious humors. Does he learn his lessons? Far from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue, a lament for the days...