Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...countryside has been shaved of vegetation by both the natives and hunger-driven refugees on their way to Hankow. .. . The mortality rate, particularly among children, is said to be exceptionally high...
...backwash of postwar epidemics spread across China, carried by 60,000,000 louse-ridden refugees. Two months ahead of the virulent summer season, a cholera epidemic broke in Canton. Only cool weather prevented a full-scale epidemic in Hankow. Bubonic plague broke out in Foochow, and in north China was apparently moving on Peiping and Tientsin. Two planes carrying UNRRA medical supplies flew to Tientsin to meet the threat...
Marshall's final call was at bomb-torn Hankow, where he summed up his observations: "Military agreements will be carried out. . . . The situation is most encouraging. . . . Last month and the next two are the most critical months in the history of China for the next 50 years." At week's end the General took off on a 12,000-mile hop to Washington. There he would tell President Truman and Congress how the U.S. could provide concrete assistance to China in her critical months. The principal item on his list of recommendations would be a generous loan...
...Chinese into each of its larger C-54s, carried 26,000 men of the Ninety-fourth Army to Shanghai. Soon the Ninety-fourth was on the wing again. This time it was bound for Peiping. At the same time, the Ninety-second Army was flown to Peiping from Hankow...
...trained Chinese armies were readied to reoccupy key cities as soon as the Japanese gave up. U.S. air forces stood by to transport them. The Central Government appointed mayors for Canton, Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Peiping, Tientsin and a governor (General Hsiung Shi-hui) for Manchuria's strategic Kwantung Peninsula...