Word: haiphong
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This was a lot to swallow, but on instructions from defeated Bordeaux, Ambassador Arsene-Henry acceded. Of course, the Japanese were not satisfied. The Navy concentrated several units, including an aircraft carrier, off Hainan Island, opposite the French Indo-Chinese port of Haiphong. The Army was reported moving troops down from the Yangtze area, with 100,000 already billeted on Hainan...
Japan's Army began its week of bungles by warning the French owners of the vital Haiphong-Yunnan Railway, which aside from the Burma highway is the last uninterrupted trade route into Southwest China, to stop supplying China within two weeks, or else have every bridge bombed...
Engaged. Rupert Hughes, 52, novelist, cinema director, to Elizabeth Patterson Dial, cinema actress; in Los Angeles. His first wife, Adelaide Mould Hughes, last year committed suicide at Haiphong, Indo-China...
Died.?Mrs. Rupert Hughes, 39, second wife of the novelist-playwright, in whose plays she sometimes appeared, at Haiphong, China, suicide, probably the result of a nervous collapse following her experiences in the Japanese earthquake...