Word: hangchow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silent Men. They read about China's "second front." All along the lost coast the silent men, the guerrillas, men who plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...
...China and staking them against the game farther south. Shanghai reported that Japan was already withdrawing troops from inner China toward the seacoast. Shanghai prophets predicted that Japan would concentrate its forces in North China and along a southward line following the rail way from Nanking to Shanghai, Hangchow and Canton - thus controlling China's great seaport sources of trade and revenue...
...Christian colleges have been able to take only one in five of qualified applicants. But even with makeshift equipment and a great lack of books, all are giving full courses. Says Executive Secretary Bettis Austin Garside of the A. B. C. C. C.: "If China needs engineers, she asks Hangchow Christian College for them, and gets them. If China needs trained organizers of cooperatives, she asks the University of Nanking for them, and gets them. If China needs medical supplies, she asks West China Union University to find them in the plants and chemicals of Szechwan, and she gets them...
...Cheeloo, Fukien Christian, Ginling, Hangchow Christian, Hua Chung, Hwa Nan, Lingan, Nanking, St. John's, Shanghai, Soochow, West China Union, Yenching...