Word: ichang
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...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...
Latest U. S.-owned steamer to get in Yangtze trouble is the Iping. Scuddling down the river's rapids, she bumped herself on a rock, limped on, ran a gauntlet of Communist fire, escaped toward Ichang. Next day "friendly" Government artillery suddenly surprised the Iping with shrapnel, desperately wounded two Chinese passengers, put a slug in the leg of Leo Bradley, able seaman U. S. N. Promptly other U. S. Naval guards on the Iping got her guns into action, silenced the Chinese battery with an Imperialist cannonade...
...venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME, Jan. 24). Later Mr. Bingham pushed on to Ichang, in the extreme upper reaches of the Yangtze...
...Pittsburgh, at Shanghai. The destroyers Peary, Edsall and McCormick with the gunboats Sacramento and Asheville were also at Shanghai last week. At Hankow were the Isabel, Palos, Pigeon, Villalobos, Pope and Truxtun, under the immediate command of Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed last week with extra arms and ammunition for the infantry men at Tientsin. During the week the destroyer Pillsbury took off some 60 U. S. refugees...