Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese built the 450-ton Panay, designed especially to protect U. S. shipping from Chinese river pirates on the Yangtze. She was launched at Shanghai in 1927. Last week she lay in the river at Nanking, taking off U. S. Embassy secretaries, Standard Oilmen, correspondents, cameramen and other U. S...
The naval and air forces of the Son of Heaven soon began shooting up the Yangtze, sinking scores of heavily laden Chinese junks. They were believed to have sunk all Chinese warships anywhere in the vicinity of Nanking for many miles up and downstream. Colonel Hashimoto, senior Japanese officer, announced...
Old China hands could scarcely remember an instance in which a Japanese commander has ever behaved with such moderation. To them it reflected General Matsui's plain eagerness to induce Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to sue speedily for peace. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang had meanwhile left Nanking, which advancing...
Just at the corner of Nanking Road, not one block from the Wing On department store, accidentally demolished by Chinese air bombs last August, the inevitable grenade was thrown. "I saw a figure across the street throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a...
Simultaneously with last week's flight of clerks, officials and foreign diplomats up the Yangtze, Generalissimo Chiang brought down the river enormous levies of fresh Chinese troops, and these were flung against the advancing Japanese. General Pau Chung-hsi, chief of staff, advised that from a military point of...