Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese drive against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week reached a point only 95 miles down the Yangtze from his headquarters at Hankow. There the Japanese were hampered chiefly by a few bursted dikes ("Dynamited by the Chinese!" snarled the enraged invaders...
...Japanese have made the Peiping-Hankow Railway a fortified zone, with every station an impregnable castle of sandbags and with hundreds of pillboxes between the stations. We guerrillas cannot capture a station without suffering heavy casualties...
Neutral military experts deduced from the information available that Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers...
...Hankow, attired in a new uniform of pale lavender, Generalissimo Chiang urbanely gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China...
...days last week, Long Island Sound off Larchmont was as crowded as China's famed Han River at Hankow. Instead of jostling sampans, junks and tiny tugs the jostlers were Pirates, Buccaneers, Bulldogs, Snipes. It was the Larchmont Yacht Club's 40th annual Race Week, No. 1 outing for North Atlantic sailors south of Cape...