Word: honan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
Meanwhile at Loyang in Central Honan Province an army of sweating, blue-clad coolies was busy as ants rolling, grading, carting dirt, dumping fill for another of the four key air bases in the Nationalist Government's plan. Not since the Middle Ages has the dilapidated mud-walled city of Loyang seen such activity. Beneath a row of dusty cliffs, Loyang, long before the Manchus glorified Peiping, was the capital of six dynasties of Chinese Emperors. There is nothing to show for it today but miles of imperial burial mounds and the hope that lies in the workshops...
...Rumors have been set afloat to the effect that bandits were responsible for the collapse of dikes, but meantime Liu Shih. the Civil Governor of Honan [province] has openly dispatched a brigade of troops to the Lanfeng district...
...month warned China's millions that "almost inevitably" the Hwang Ho would writhe out of its new retaining dikes (many feet above the surrounding terrain) back to its old course (TIME, July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped out tentative feelers of yellow water. Like a wandering serpent, one mile-wide flood flailed ponderously across Honan Province. Where the old and new beds of the Hwang Ho fork, roily water slupped around the cities of Chengchow, Lanfeng and Kaifeng, drowning 1,000 working peasants...
...Connor, c.f. 5 2 2 2 2 0 Robinson, 1b. 5 2 1 10 0 0 Baker, r.f. 5 1 2 1 1 1 Logan, l.f. 5 1 1 2 0 1 Andrew, 2b. 4 1 1 1 3 2 Blake, 2b. 3 1 0 1 1 0 Honan, p. 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals...