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...were awarded to Francis W. Cleaves 7G, of Needham Heights; James R. Hightower 3G, of Salida, California; Neil E. Rawlingson 4G, of Montebello, California; and Charles C. Stelle 2G, of Cambridge. Resident fellowships went to Eugene P. Boardman 3G, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; Te-K'un Cheng 2B, of Kulangsu, Amoy, China; Yuliang Chou 1G., of Tientsin, China; Richard N. Frye 1G., of Danville, Illinois; and Sau-Yu Teng 2G., of Hunan, China...
With Manchukuo (Japanese) and Mongolian (Russian) troops skirmishing again on the Soviet-protected Outer Mongolian border, with Japan still refusing to evacuate her troops from the International Settlement at Kulangsu, with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships...
Last week the three powers stood firm, not only at Shanghai but also at the little International Settlement on the Island of Kulangsu, near Amoy. There the Japanese landed 126 marines. Soon Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the British China Fleet, served the Japanese with an ultimatum to clear out. Sir Percy was not speaking for Britain alone but for France and, more important, for the U. S. Throughout the war the Japanese have been considerably more respectful to the U. S., which is a big nation with a big fleet more free to prowl...
Intense fighting was continuing at 2 a.m. and additional areas of the city, which has a normal population of 250,000 including about 38 Americans and 189 Britons, were in flames. The U.S. Gunboat Asheville was prepared to evacuate Americans from the international settlement on Kulangsu Island at any moment...
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