Word: kiang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kiang River literally ran red with blood and dead bodies were piled mountain high. . . . One hundred and twenty-four thousand houses were burned, and 300,000,000 silver dollars worth of property destroyed...
...Chinese Lowestoft porcelain was never made in Lowestoft, England. It is 18th & 19th Century Chinese porcelain turned principally on upper Kiang Si province, decorated in Canton by Chinese workmen with coats of arms, religious symbols, ships and other designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...
...often remembered is that there is a permanent U. S. fleet in Chinese waters, at present consisting of 41 warboats. The river gunboats, most active part of this fleet, are not only permanently stationed in China, most of them were built in China.† Water in the Siang-Kiang river was so low last week that destroyers could not navigate it. To rescue U. S. citizens the flatdecked little Palos which can float wherever it is three feet deep, nosed its way over the sandbars to Changsha. Bandit bullets ricocheted off her armored deck house, wounded five U. S. seamen...
...remaining $5,000 landed on: the other edge of the continent at the University of Oregon where similar, lectures will be given by Professor W. R. B. Willcox and Dr. Kiang Kang Hu of the Congressional Library, Washington, D. C. Since Oregon has recently been made recipient of the immensely valuable Murray Warner collection of Oriental art, this year's lectures will be chiefly devoted to the art and architecture of China and Japan...