Word: hupeh
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...scene of conflict was of course Hupeh Province, the stronghold of Wu. Against this base the Cantonese troops of Chang Kai-check, subsidized by Russian gold, have been making steady progress (TIME, Sept. 13 et ante). They were reported last week to have driven Wu from Hankow on the Yangtze, but all information from the battle sector was admittedly untrustworthy...
Hankow, about 500 miles due west from Shanghai on the Yang-tsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Hupeh. Despite the efforts of Tuchun Hsia Yao-nan to maintain quiet, an ugly situation rapidly developed. Foreign women, children and missionaries left the city on the eve of an attack by rioters on the British Volunteer Armory and Japanese shops. The British used machine-guns on the rioters; many were killed and wounded...