Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realize that they need do these chores only as long as they wish. The Chinese Nationalist movement has surged up from Canton across half China (TIME, Dec. 13); and last week the Chinaman's reluctance to go on emptying out slops indefinitely crystallized in a grave incident at Hankow,± "Chicago of China...
Bluff and Bruises. Hankow or "Mouth of Han," takes its name from the great river Han which flows into the greater Yangtze. The city lies at the confluence, with Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, just across the Yangtze. Daily for months the Nationalist Government has kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since...
...Admiral Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay. Some years ago she was refitted and sent to occupy a station of the Yangtze Patrol Gorges at Ichang, just below the Yangtze Gorges. The trials and tribulations the Elcano met with in navigating the comparatively quiet stretch ot river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much as 15 miles a day. Yangtze rivermen frequently express...
...Government set up by the victorious Cantonese forces at Wuchang (TIME, Dec. 13) was on its best behavior last week as British Minister Miles Wedderburn Lampson arrived at Hankow just across the Yangtze. An anti-British strike which had impended at Hankow was called off. The Cantonese General Chiang Kai-shek and the Contonese Foreign Minister Dr. Eugene Chen received Minister Lampson in state, as well as Japanese and U.S. consular representatives...
...inaugurate a firm British "Imperialist" policy in China, the Union Club of Shanghai banqueted him, waited over the cigars for some hint of Downing Street's policy toward China from their lanky guest. At last he dropped a most portentous hint. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am going to Hankow on my way to Peking. . . ." Thus, by a bland indirection, Minister Lampson announced that his real business in China is not with the impotent vanishing "Government" at Peking to which he is accredited, but with the new, potent Cantonese Government which already controls half China and was moved last week...