Word: nankingers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jubilant were the foreign diplomats. They and their legation and embassy buildings have stayed in the P-city. and there they will stay, not letting any Chinese bamboozle them into thinking that the "Capital of China" is at Nanking or Canton or anywhere else. For China has reached such a...
Three days' sailing away, lapping their grey noses in the yellow river off Shanghai's Bund, lay the Asiatic fleet's fighting strength. There, under Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, were the cruiser Houston, ten destroyers and the yacht Isabel. The Navy's starry ensign also fluttered...
With its slanty eye cocked on China, all Japan trembled with patriotic fervor last week. General elections were coming, the budget was unbalanced, the yen was falling, Government bonds were off. But about such things few subjects of the Emperor cared when Japanese arms were carving out world headlines in...
Tuesday. Nanking, the Nationalist capital, lies 210 miles up the Yangtze. A river patrol of seven Japanese destroyers is stationed there. Without warning, their commander began bombing the city which was simultaneously plunged into darkness except for searchlights which wavered fearfully from the Chinese airport. Enormously strengthened by the arrival...
But still the only real rescue was one of diplomacy, not of arms. Day and night U. S. and British diplomats in Tokyo. Nanking, London, Washington struggled to give birth to a formula. Finally they found one which they promptly dispatched for presentation simultaneously to the foreign offices at Tokyo...