Word: hanyang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Japanese-dominated state into a "graveyard for the Japanese." About 4,500 junks, including sailing boats, tug boats and sampans-capable of transporting 80,000 tons freight-manned by 16,000 boatmen earning 30? a day, worked feverishly to complete the evacuation of the three Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang...
...Chinese officials at Hankow when news came that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a truce. While the fighting with the Red Army was at its hottest fortnight ago, Japanese aviators bombed Chinese cities only halfheartedly. Last week they redoubled their bombing zeal over the triplet Wuhan cities (Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankow), killed at least 1,000 people, damaged five U. S. mission properties. With the final battle for Hankow approaching, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed as much factory machinery as possible and shipped it upriver with Hankow's 500,000 fleeing civilians...
...principal object of the raid was not China's provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...
...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...
...Hwai River to the north. Homeless were 30,000,000 people; 10,000,000 were utterly destitute, with hundreds dying daily. Eventually, it was estimated, the death toll would reach 2,000,000. Pestilence was abroad, was to become worse. Hankow (pop. some 800,000) and its sister cities Hanyang and Wuchang were doomed to destruction: houses were collapsing everywhere, mud walls on which refugees perched were slowly sinking into the floodwaters. The three cities had enough cereals for three weeks. A little meat, no vegetables, no ice. The power plants were in danger...