Word: honge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border of Hong Kong territory to be ready, if necessary, to take lives as well...
...Party, Wang Ching-wei followed the Government on its trek from Nanking to Hankow to Chungking. But last winter he took his sons out of school, sent them out of the country, packed up his own belongings and one night left Chungking secretly for Hanoi, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. The old Oriental instincts for compromise had got the better of him, and he declared himself for "peace" with Japan. Chiang Kai-shek read him out of the Party, arrested his followers...
...From Hong Kong he went on to Shanghai, later to Japanese-conquered Hankow. The Japanese recognized him as a good catch for their puppet regime. With Wang Ching-wei signed up, Japan's military diplomats hoped that a new Chinese central government could be established this week, second anniversary of the war's outbreak...
...British Concession; at Chefoo and Tsingtao Japanese officials sponsored anti-British demonstrations; at Shanghai British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr was surrounded with a heavy guard after "terrorists" had threatened his life; the Japanese captured one Chinese port, closed another, attacked two more (Foochow, Wenchow); at Hong Kong British troops feverishly erected barbed wire entanglements and built pillbox fortifications; at Singapore 44 French and British naval, military and air officers conferred on "common action" in the Far East...
Swatow. Japan's victory-of-the-week over China was at the treaty port of Swatow, 180 miles north of Hong Kong. Here Japan also suffered a minor diplomatic defeat from western nations. Once a city of 178,000, Swatow had been bombed by Japanese planes daily for the last ten weeks. All electric lights had been cut off, the waterworks were out of order, the municipal buildings were all destroyed. By day Swatow was a deserted city, but at night, when no bombers came, it hummed with shipping activity. To the port came British, French, U. S., Scandinavian...