Word: ichang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yangtze near Ichang (in free China, 485 miles upriver from Hankow), Japanese bombers returning from killing natives sank two foreign vessels, the Jardine, Matheson & Co. river boats Kiawo and Hsin Chang Wo, and narrowly missed the river gunboat Gannet. British naval authorities suspected a new Panay incident-a test of what Britain would do in answer to direct, unprovoked attack...
...defense demonstrated that with intelligent air raid precautions, a whole day's series of five raids need not kill more than five people. But apparently nothing in the world can make the Chinese people defend themselves intelligently. Last week 18 Japanese planes flew three times over Ichang, Yangtze trading centre between Hankow and Chungking. Bombs damaged two American mission compounds clearly identified with U. S. flags and clearly marked on maps given the Japanese last June. U. S. Consul General in Hankow Paul R. Josselyn lodged a sharp protest which the Japanese did not immediately answer. But the appalling...
Little did it matter to these refugees that it had taken two months of hardship to reach where they were last week, somewhere between Ichang and Chungking, that it probably would take them another month to scramble through the Yangtze gorges to their goal. They were on their way to China's "promised land" in the interior provinces, far from their enemies...
...unconfirmed report said that farther upstream the City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties...
...Kidnapped last week by Communist bandits near Ichang, Miss Esther Nordlund, 34, and Miss Augusta Nelson, 50, both missionaries, both of Chicago, were released almost at once...