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South of Peiping two roughly parallel railroads run, one to central Hankow the other to Pukow and Nanking. Because divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's highly mechanized, German-trained personal army were driving north six weeks ago, threatening to cut the Japanese line between Peiping and the sea, the Japanese Navy was ordered to stage what is technically known as a diversion at Shanghai...
...allowed to study all the books on economics and socialism he wanted. A week after he was paroled he joined the Communist Party, spent five years with William Z. Foster boring from within the American Federation of Labor, later visited Russia, passed two years as a union organizer in Hankow, returned to the U. S. along with Depression and be came secretary of the U. S. Communist Party at $40 a week...
...Spartan virtues to indulgent Chinese is enterprising Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the best man to head the Chinese Government in living memory. Last week he connected the Chicago of his country with its New Orleans, sent the first train chuffing 700 miles over the new line from Hankow to Canton. Years ago Chiang set out from Canton with no railway to carry the troops of his Revolution, plunged overland to seize Hankow and then fought his way down the great River Yangtze to establish his Government in its present seat, Nanking...
...original contract for the Canton-Hankow Railway was let by the Imperial Manchu Government in 1898 to American...
...Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties on such goods be hereafter canceled. Chiang Goes West. With frightened local authorities at Hankow and Swatow obliged to accede to Japan's demands, the National Government at Nanking clung like patriotic limpets to the position they have dexterously maintained for several years between the barbs of China's excruciating dilemma. They might have bankrupt themselves and squandered Chinese blood in suicidal armed resistance...