Word: linke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link at Szeshui last week, but made no further advance after crossing the river. Chinese were reported to have blown up dikes along the Yellow River, flooding the countryside and thus blocking Japanese mechanized forces...
Chinese officials minimized the Japanese rail-link snipping at Szeshui, pointed out that there still remained open a five-day highway connection between Hankow and Sian. They announced that at Tungkwan, where the river crooks like an elbow between Shensi and Shansi Provinces, Chinese troops were still holding the main body of Japanese troops to the opposite bank of the river...
...scathing was Cadman's castigation that the Government withheld the report, despite violent press criticism, until they had remedies to offer. Last week the Government offered the British public both. They proposed three new officials: a Permanent Under Secretary for Air (to link civil with military aviation); a Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation; a Director of Civil Research and Production (to bring British planes up to date). The Government also decided that British Airways and Imperial Airways, the chief Government-subsidized lines, should be completely reorganized. To make it easier to do all this-in spite...
MOGUK, BURMA, Dec. 22 (By Pony Express to London)--On the banks of the Irrawaddy river, in Upper Burma, the American Southeast Asiatic Expedition has found a prehistoric link between two of Asia's most ancient stone age cultures...
...concrete way for the University to show its admiration would be to assign a public speaking instructor as debating coach. This would not only be giving Harvard debating an advantage long enjoyed by every other Ivy League college, but it would be going far toward providing the missing link in the House Plan...