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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...
...kiang, about 400 miles southeast of Shanghai on the Yangtsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Kiangsi, and about 130 miles southwest of Hankow. The British and Japanese Consulates were wrecked, and the Japanese Consulate and other Japanese buildings were burned by infuriated mobs. No casualties were reported...
...Dodd, who has been connected with medical missionary work in Persia, will speak at the meeting and Dr. J. J. Vaughn, former medical advisor to the City of Nanchang and the Provincial Court of Kiang-si, will speak of his experiences in China. The Chinese phase of the question will also be discussed by Dr. T. D. Sloan and Dr. P. T. Watson. The West Chinese phase will be taken up by Dr. W. R. Morse...
...Dodd, who has been connected with medical missionary work in Persia, will speak at the meeting and Dr. J. G. Vaughn, former medical advisor to the City of Nanchang and the Provincial Court of Kiang-si, will speak of his experiences in China. The Chinese phase of the question will also be discussed by Dr. T. D. Sloan, Dr. P. T. Watson, and the West Chinese phase by Dr. W. R. Morse. Dr. P. H. J. Lerrigo and Dr. Brewer Eddy will discuss the native medical practices in India and Dr. Mark Ward will speak of medicine in Turkey...
...happened that a brigade under Brigadier General Chang Chih-kiang marched to Kalgan, about 100 miles northwest of Peking, to replace the forces of a local Tuchun (military governor) who had been ousted. The troops rounded up a revolting brigade which had been celebrating by pillaging and plundering the populace...