Word: nese
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as chop suey. Passing suggestions in that book hinted that what the U. S. needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives...
THREE HUMAN BOMBS "The highest and noblest monument of war was erected near Shanghai by the Three Human Bombs at Miaohangchen. At dawn on March 22, 1932, in a general attack on Miaohangchen a certain Japa nese Division, which marched from Woosung, encountered great obstacles through the stubborn resistance of the Chinese troops, which, firmly entrenched, defied the fierce onset of the Imperial Army. The Chinese soldiers raised strong defense works there during a month. A way had to be cut through these deadly obstacles for the Imperial troops. Three heroes of a Japanese sappers' corps, named Takeji Eshita...
Died. Baron Rudolf Carl Slatin ("Slatin Pasha''), 75, Austrian hero of the British conquest of the Sudan; after a stomach operation; in Vienna. Protege of heroic General Charles George ("Chi- nese") Gordon, a bey at 24, he surrendered at 27 to the rebel Mahdi Mohammed Ahmed, was held prisoner for eleven years...
General Honjo Digs In. With the capture of Tsitsihar (which Japanese estimated cost 300 Japanese lives, 3,000 Chinese) the Japanese forces in Manchuria under General Shigeru Honjo controlled all three Manchurian provincial capitals, Mukden (General Honjo's base) Kirin and nese had already dug in by establishing puppet Chinese governments at Mukden and Kirin. Last week they established Chinese Puppet Chang Chin-hui at Tsitsihar. To demonstrate the independence of these Chinese regimes General Honjo called attention to the fact that the Chinese Government of Southern Manchuria at Mukden had just adopted a budget of their own diligent...
Died. Count Yasukata Oku, 84, Japanese soldier-patriarch, commander of the Emperor's 2nd Army in the Russo-Japa-nese War; after long illness of bronchial catarrh, at his home in Tokyo. Born a Commoner, his war services won him the titles of Baron and Count, First Class of the Order of the Golden Kite, Japan's Highest military award. He was made Field Marshal...