Word: hwang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name by belonging to Soviet Russia. Seized and packed post haste from Harbin, headquarters of the C. E. R., were 174 Soviet railway officials and! employes. They scuttled north, minus their belongings, into Siberia. General Manager A. I. Emshanov who had refused the peremptory request of Lu-Yung-hwang, President of the C. E. R. directorate, to hand over the railway management, found himself suddenly being hustled with his office force through Harbin's cobbled streets and dusty squares and locked into his house preparatory to being booted from the country. Almost immediately, the Chinese assistant general manager, Shan...
...vessels fired upon the city. The true facts of the case were not known until last week, when the U. S. State Department released the verbatim text of the MacMurray settlement, which consists of six notes exchanged between the U. S. Minister and Nationalist Foreign Minister Hwang Fu. Therein the U. S. explicitly declares that the firing upon Nanking by the U. S. war vessels Noa and Preston "was in fact a protective barrage, strictly confined to the immediate neighborhood of the house in which the American Consul and his family and staff, together with many others, had been driven...
...dragon after a dry. Thus 2,000,000 Chinese perished through drowning and starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
...late as 1852 its waters principally flowed into the Yellow Sea at a point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage canals have been dug. Even so the titanic Wet Dragon has escaped taming by Chinese methods...
...story is in circulation in Peking that the position was offered to General Hwang Fu, Doctors Koo, Chen Ting-Wang and Yen, who decided to settle their fate by a game of Mah Jongg. It was arranged that the lowest score should accept the vacant position. They " played all night " and Dr. Koo lost " by one bamboo...