Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sent the force which we have been advised would be necessary to defend our people in the international concession at Shanghai. . . . Every foreign country is aware that evacuation is out of the question at Shanghai. You can evacuate a small population of foreigners in a place like Hankow,* but at Shanghai you cannot...
Fortnight ago. Secretary Kellogg suppressed certain intelligence from China for fear of "unduly alarming" the people. Last week, it appeared that the intelligence in question related to the mobbing and manhandling of a U. S. man, one Butterick, at Hankow. Chinese flung at him pots of dung...
...sober truth that word and a few others fired the huge unarmed mob which forced the British to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession at Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week the world waited to see if the Chinese, a medley of tribes, had learned the white man's lessons well enough to stand together and force him from his $1,000,000,000 concessions at Shanghai...
Navy: Fifty-five ships of the Asiatic fleet, none larger than a cruiser, are commanded by Admiral C. S. Williams from his flagship, the armored cruiser Pittsburgh, at Shanghai. The destroyers Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed...
Against his wits were pitted those of four Cantonese Nationalists whose names loomed internationally last week from the present headquarters at Hankow: 1) T. V. Soong, 33, a graduate of the Harvard School of Business Administration, later employed by the International Banking Corp. at Manhattan, now the outstanding civil leader at Hankow, partly because he is the brother-in-law of the late founder of the Nationalist movement, famed Dr. Sun Yatsen. He and his sister, the pretty widow, serve to remind soldiers and coolies of the great revolutionary name. 2) Eugene Chen, Foreign Secretary of the Nationalist Government...