Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Dollar arrived in Boston on Monday, on the President Hayes, one of his ships, from a business and inspection tour of the world that has taken him to 462 ports. In China, he penetrated the interior in a trip from Pekin to Hankow, a distance of 600 miles, despite warnings that he might encounter difficulties arising out of the oivil...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, until recently "War lord of Central China," long a potent bulwark against Communism, found his forces crumbling and his officers deserting by dozens last week as he retreated from Hankow, his one-time stronghold on the Yangtze, to Chengchow in northern Honan Province...
Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the victorious Cantonese war lord, spent the week in directing successful campaigns against Wu and Sun and in strengthening his position at Hankow...
Wuchang, a rich and potent city just across the river from Hankow, held out against Chang last week, though the siege which he laid to it reduced the inhabitants (including 21 U. S. citizens) to a state bordering on famine...
Demonstration. At once Vice-Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair, commander-in-chief of the British China Station, began to steam portentously up the Yangtze on his flagship, the cruiser Hawkins. Sir Edwyn well knew that the potent Hawkins could not navigate the Yangtze above Hankow, some 300 miles below Wanhsien, on account of the shallow rapids, most famed of which is the so-called "Tiger's Tooth." But Hankow could be used as a base for punitive expeditions, and a glimpse of the Hawkins might strike salutary terror into many a Chinese breast...