Word: loing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week in Nanking, China's capital, spoke Foreign Minister Lo Wenkan with appropriate frenzy, pardonable hyperbole. Nearly all the 400 million Chinese felt as strongly as Mr. Lo that China must resist Japan's new offensive to seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...
Padded Uniforms, The sturdy North Chinese soldier fights (hyperbolic Mr. Lo notwithstanding) neither unarmed nor unclothed. His rifle, his cotton uniform stuffed with wadding and his tough constitution, inured to sub-zero winters, should make him no mean match in freezing Jehol for men from Japan's warm islands. Last week Japan's three-barbed offensive, closing in on Chengteh, the capital of Jehol, from Kailu, Chinchow and Suichung, advanced through snows as much as a foot deep, braved blizzards which reduced visibility at times to nil, plunged on with thermometers so low that Japanese machine guns occasionally...
When General (later President) Chiang Kai-shek marched out of Canton in 1926, taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...
...printing, and bookbinding are to be found among its volumes. Among the most valuable of these recently received are two books are the largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia over complied in the history of mankind, done by a commission of 2000 scholars at the behest of the emperor Yung--lo, of the Ming dynasty, who reigned from 1403 to 1424. Only one set was printed; it contained 22,211 books bound in 11,095 volumes, or over 500,000 pages. Most of it was destroyed by the great fire in Peking in 1900 when the allied troops captured the city...
Worcestor--Kehee r.e.; Kishon, r.f.; Standhope, r.g.; Engler, e.; Rieel, l.g.; Brown, l.e.; Lo Fohbre, q.b.; Alex, r.h.b.; Gore, l.h.b.; Greenberg...