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...China has been due for another beating all summer, and spry Japan, while prepared to lay on the whangee anyhow, is well content that it should make only back-page news. Almost unnoticed last week, seven Japanese river gunboats steamed up the swirling, muddy Yangtze to put huge Hankow, the "Chicago of China," at the mercy of Japanese shot and shell. Simultaneously in China's far south, ten Japanese destroyers stuck their snouts into Swatow...
...river gunboats picked on Hankow last week because on the fourth anniversary of Japan's seizure from China of Manchuria (TIME. Sept. 28. 1931 et seq.) posters were stuck up in Chinese barracks at Hankow and Wuchang reading simply "Remember Our Loss." This, according to the cocky commander of Japan's gunboats last week, "constitutes intolerable anti-Japanese propaganda for which the Imperial Japanese Government demands full satisfaction and punishment of the guilty Chinese...
Farther south the Yangtze River subsided somewhat, had not yet made good its threat to engulf "the Chicago of China," teeming Hankow...
Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above Hankow reported that for miles around the fertile countryside had become a boiling sea with humans clinging to treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard...
...Hankow, nearly 600 miles up the muddy Yangtze River, is the Chicago of China, then round-faced youthful General Yeh Peng, Garrison Commander of the Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang) is the Chinese Chicago's boss. But General Yeh Peng is a far more admirable character than many of the unofficial lords of Chicago. Only a little while ago he was presented with a silver-plated eagle on a globe for persuading 200 cadets and members of his staff to join the Chinese Y. M. C. A. and contribute $2,000. Only a little while before that...