Word: hangchow
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...specimen, one of the earliest examples of printing in the world and the only exhibit of its kind in America, is a Chinese prayer scroll, recovered from the famous Red Pagoda in Hangchow after nearly ten centuries of burial...
...Lingnan University in Canton, Hua Chung College in Wu-chang. West China Union University in Chengtu, Hwa Nan College and Fukien Christian University in Foochow, Cheeloo University in Tsinan, University of Nanking and Ginling College in Nanking, and St. John's University, University of Shanghai, Soochow University and Hangchow Christian College in the Shanghai area. This does not include Rockefeller Foundation's Peiping Union Medical College, various Catholic institutions (European as well as U. S.-supported...
...mass flight of Chinese was estimated to have pulled the population of Tsingtao down from 500,000 to 50,000. South of Shanghai, the great city of Hangchow was down from 500,000 to 150,000. Meanwhile native Chinese official communiques switched suddenly to a new technique of reporting the war. Instead of making the time-honored effort to fool the Chinese masses by telling them their troops were fighting bravely and that such-&-such a Chinese city would not surrender, the new Chinese newspaper refrain became: "When the Japanese capture the city they will find only ruins...
...Some 100,000 Chinese troops deployed under orders to defend Hangchow, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, scattered in headlong flight last week and that great city fell to the Japanese-the sixth Chinese provincial capital taken since the present war began last July...
...third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding the exporting of munitions on U. S.-owned ships...