Word: harbin
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...shabby, weary Chinese cities, from Canton to Harbin, last week men noted that it was twelve years now since the start of World War II outside Mukden...
...served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang. He sulked in Manchuria and tried a new bargain-this time with the Japanese. For that he earned the premiership of Manchukuo...
...Japanese have held three fundamentalist Presbyterian missionaries incommunicado in Manchukuo since Oct. 22. Protests by the U.S. State Department have failed even to elicit the charge against the missionaries. Four days after the arrest at Harbin, the Japanese hustled the trio-Dr. and Mrs. Roy M. Byram, the Rev. Bruce Hunt-500 miles south to Antung, on the Korean border. Probable reason: to make them testify at the trial of the Korean Christians arrested for refusing to take part in State Shinto rites. Secondary reason: to frighten remaining U.S. missionaries out of Manchukuo...
...Shaw spent five years in Russia, served as U.S. vice consul in Siberia, helped spirit the bones of the Tsar's family out of the Soviet Union to the British at Harbin, Manchuria. A vice president, he now bosses National City's foreign exchange trading...
...loved China. He was like a blotter for the language, and soon he was reading both newspapers and classics. His early changes of post gave him a habit of restlessness from which he has never relaxed: from Peking to bleak Mukden, Russified Harbin, hilly Hankow, busy Shanghai, river-girt Chungking, remote Changsha...