Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successor, Foreign Minister Yoshizawa, seemed in agreement last week: China was not a power to be considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers and police were to be barred. The Western Powers promptly rejected the plan as a gross violation of Chinese sovereignty...
...hearts of a thousand editors gave an extra-hard thump one day last week when the wire service tickers gave them the words: "Lindberghs . . . crash." In a moment it was clear that both Colonel & Mrs. Lindbergh were safe. They had been fished out of the filthy Yangtze River at Hankow by a lifeboat crew from the British aircraft carrier Hermes. Still, a crash was a crash and many a page-wide headline shrieked the news that afternoon. Next day it was being called a "ducking...
China's angry dragon, the Yangtse River, was dropping a few inches a day last week. The flood peak had definitely passed. But there was no respite from death and destruction. Hankow, "Chicago of China," was still awash with germ-laden, stinking waters. Gendarmerie headquarters estimated 250,000 dead in the vicinity...
...Navy was mobilized for emergency work and to look after U. S. citizens (the New York Times counted 896 in the district, all safe, most of the women leaving for mountain resorts, the men remaining to watch their property). The Navy helped out by keeping Hankow in touch with Shanghai: Chinese telegraph lines were virtually useless. A plan was under consideration to mobilize all foreign navies in Chinese waters. Also, an international river patrol will be formed when the waters begin to subside...
First thing to do was arrange for transportation of food. At least 5,000,000 lb. of grain per month will be needed for the next six months. Waters will recede after several months, but slowly, for the fall of the Yangtze at Hankow is little more than one inch per mile. The Hwai River empties into the Yangtze by way of several lakes and the Grand Canal, which, ordinarily sufficient to empty it, will keep it flooded for many a month. Crops this year are already ruined; soon cold weather will freeze the water lying over the vast plain...