Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiastic reader of your magazine I wish to take this opportunity of correcting an error in TIME, Feb. 7. On p. 10 of that issue there appears an item, concerning "one Butterick, at Hankow. Chinese flung at him pots of dung...
This lurid statement has caused great mortification to the many readers of your magazine in Hankow, as well as to the said Butterick, who is made the subject of such unfortunate publicity. It cannot be denied that there exists an ample supply of this form of ammunition in this turbulent metropolis but it is not a fact that dung was flung at the gentleman in question. I was present in Hankow during the hectic days of early January and therefore am able to testify that I personally was not aware that dung was flung, and can also aver that Butterick...
...Hankow. The parent Southern Nationalist Government at Hankow seemed to be disintegrating rapidly last week. Only a fortnight ago the U. S., Britain, Japan, Italy and France delivered a joint note to Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister of the Hankow administration. But last week Mr. Chen was said to have fled to a hospital maintained at Hankow by French nuns...
...bubbling scum of Chinese civil war, events crystallized and clarified remarkably last week, standing forth sharp and definite: C The U. S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy stood together on their Chinese policy for the first time in many months and all transmitted to the Chinese Nationalist Government at Hankow identical demands for reparations in connection with the incident at Nanking (TIME, April 4), when Chinese killed several Occidentals but were quelled by a U. S. British bombardment...
...While Foreign Minister Chen and the more radical Nationalist politicians were busy replying to notes at Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then...