Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communist Nationalists" at Hankow who seemed to have composed their differences with the Conservative Nationalists last week, and to be re-establishing a stable regime in which the Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin (see RUSSIA) was again prominent after a period of eclipse. 2)The "Conservative Nationalists" of Nanking who were rapidly pushing toward Peking last week, led by their generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 3) The "Independent Nationalist" army of General Feng Yusiang, likewise advancing on Peking from Honan Province
...Hankow, seat of the most radical Chinese faction, the editor of the People's Tribune wrote, last week: "There are whispers of woe and impending disaster in the air." Actually the "whispers" were shouts of terror. Four armies, representing the so-called "moderate" factions of China* were encircling Hankow from all directions except the Northwest. Thus the fall of Hankow, and butchery of actual as well as so-called "Reds" there, seemed last week momentarily imminent...
...Seattle landed Professor Theodore Hobbie, returning last week from his occupancy of the chair of mathematics at Boone University, Wuchang, directly across the Yangtze River from Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17 et seq.) where Chinese caused Britons to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession. Said Eye-witness Hobbie: "We had no idea that the disturbance in China was so serious until we picked up the American newspapers. . . . "Shortly before I left Wuchang a representative body of our students approached our Dean, Mr. Wei, and stated that they had been commanded by the students' union to make certain demands from...
...true that one American in Hankow was spat upon during the troublous times in January, and it is possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...
...Hankow, China...