Word: nan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...counter to British policy in Egypt for vital and obvious reasons. Zaghlul Pasha would probably, if elected, have hesitated to put any of his policies into effect, for the simple reason that to do so could mean only war with Britain. But as Premier he would have been persona nan grata to the London Government, because, as before, he would undoubtedly carry on propaganda through his Nationalist organization, the Wadf, against the "usurper" of Egyptian rights...
Roseanne by Nan Bagby Stevens...