Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months took on an intelligible significance last week. Two happenings of major interest: 1) the Nine-Power Customs Conference* assembled at Peking, seat of the present weak Chinese National Government; 2) the great warlord, or "Super-Tuchun," Wu Pei-fu, emerged from an enforced retirement and appeared at Hankow as "Commander-in-Chief of the Central Provinces"-an alliance which he has apparently patched up by intrigue and which he claims leagues about him "14 of China's 18 provinces...
...Hankow negotiations between foreigners and Chinese for cooperation of Chinese police in protecting foreign concessions were broken off when the Chinese demanded an indemnity of $75,000 for Chinamen killed and wounded in the riots in June...
...criticized their Government for allowing any soldiers to take part in the parade. Just why these troops opened fire is a complicated question which I won't go into here; it is clear, however, that the situation at Shameen was very different from the "angry mobs" at Shanghai and Hankow...
Logan Herbert Roots, Bishop of Hankow, China...
...Hankow. British marines arrived early in the week and maintained absolute order. A Chinese Bolshevik was executed by the Chinese authorities...