Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But let no ordinary traveler strike off alone into China's bandit-infested hinterlands; and all travelers know that the only well-guarded railways in China proper are the short line connecting Nanking, the new capital, with the seaport of Shanghai, and the slightly longer one connecting Peiping (formerly...
"Well," said he to Peiping's Mayor Chang Yen-wu, "it seems like being home again." Turning to a group of Nanking officials, he repeated the same remark in Mandarin Chinese. Chinamen applauded.
In Nanking last week the Chinese Ministers of Communications, Foreign Affairs, War and Finance met solemnly. Soon it was reported they had cancelled the air mail and passenger contract of the China Airways Federal Inc., U.S.-owned subsidiary of President Clement M. Keys's* Intercontinent Aviation Inc. for "violation...
About to be handed back to China, after 32 years of British tenure, is the lease of Weihaiwei (Way-hi-way) - 285 square miles of free port, walled city, fertile farmland. The draft agreement, last week at Nanking by Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by...
While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December.