Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene of conflict was of course Hupeh Province, the stronghold of Wu. Against this base the Cantonese troops of Chang Kai-check, subsidized by Russian gold, have been making steady progress (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). They were reported last week to have driven Wu from Hankow on the Yangtze, but all information from the battle sector was admittedly untrustworthy...
...Hamburg Amerika motorship Rhineland was plowing a cautious course along the jaundiced flood of the Yangtze-Kiang, below Hankow, China. In the Rhineland's hold lay tons and tons of starchy little white pellets, a heavy cargo of beans. There was a crunching jar and trillions of the beans spilled about or shivered in their places as the Rhineland collided with the Japanese S. S. Mitsuki Maru. Then quiet again, and a trickling of yellow river water in among the beans. Like the droplets that crawl into men's beards to soften them for shaving; like the droplets...
...missionaries are athletes. But the soldiers of Christ must have active bodies and many of those who preach His Word in China have introduced there the wholesome exercises practiced in the west-baseball, rugger, track. Last week in Hankow the picked volleyball experts of two rival mission schools went out to play...
...student leaders to China have an their main aim a strong and free country," declared the Right Reverend Logan Holt Roots '91, Bishop of Hankow, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday...
...went to China in 1896 and spent two years in teaching, where he learned the Chinese language. He then moved to Hankow, where he has been engaged in missionary work ever since. He was consecrated a Bishop at Boston...