Word: hong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bitter cold, plus driving snow & sleet. literally froze military gains stiff in north and central China. In the sunny south, where Japanese troops are not yet operating on a large scale, Japanese pilots busied themselves systematically bombing Canton's rail approaches from both Hankow and Hong Kong. One day this week they bombed in relays for nine solid hours, the heaviest air-strafing yet seen in Japan's war in China...
...Wife of 1937, Chinese Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-shek went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
...rumor was the fact that Mme Chiang, her sister Mme H. H. Kung, wife of China's Premier, and their brother T. V. Soong, Big Banker to the Chinese Government were in Hong Kong. That city is the traditional refuge of Chinese who have found China somewhat too hot for them, are waiting to see if it gets so hot they must go on to Europe or America. At present however, it is also the vital point on the diplomatic and military line of supply which the Chinese Government still has with the rest of the world...
...members of the House of Soong, the most potent in China, huddle for long in Hong Kong it will be certain that a great many jigs are up. Starting from Hankow three weeks ago, the Soongs' relative by marriage, Dr. Sun Fo, son of China's late saint Dr. Sun Yatsen, sped via Hong Kong to Europe, arrived last week at The Hague. There Son Sun called an emergency council of China's chief diplomatic envoys in Europe, including famed Ambassador to France Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Observers assumed that Sun was inquiring desperately of China...
South China's great port, Canton, was furiously bombed by Japanese airmen who, however, held off last week until a train bearing 167 U. S. citizens from the interior had chuffed through Canton safely, bound for Hong Kong. Some $10,000 worth of bandages and medicinal supplies, just landed at Canton by the American Red Cross, were set afire and destroyed by the bombs...