Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major revolts occasion no appalling dismay. If China were really to be pacified the Generalissimo would have to ride off not in six directions but in sixty, for there were at least that many rascally "generals" insurgent throughout China. But life in the swarming cities, Shanghai, Canton, Peiping, Hankow and the capital, Nanking, went toilsomely and safely on. Swart Generalissimo Chiang wisely chooses to ignore all those local ruckuses which do not challenge his central national authority. (Most of them, he has said, are less significant than a Chicago gang-war.) Nevertheless, there came for Generalissimo Chiang last week...
...last September for a tour of 29 major U.S. cities. Everywhere, audiences crowded upon them-a total last week of 300,000 people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China knows as president of a handsome women's college at Nanking; and Dr. Charles...
...Because the Yellow Dragon, broad and meandering, is too shallow for modern navigation, the commerce of the West courses into China chiefly up the Long Dragon, the Yangtze, which is deep enough for foreign steamers and war boats to sail 600 miles inland up to "The Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds of thousands...
Last week the Yangtze River Conservancy Commission rushed gangs of coolies to plug holes in the dikes with mattresses of woven reeds. With the Long Dragon still rising at Hankow, the Bund and parts of the French and Japanese concessions were already a foot deep in water. Afraid that even Nanking the capital, only 200 miles from the sea, might be flooded, the Government sent out soldiers who rounded up every coolie they could catch, prodded them out to the Yangtze's brim, kept them working day and night under bayonet guard, piling up dirt and still more dirt...
...Hankow posters appeared, proclaiming "Hankow will be Communist by Christmas...