Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole tip of the Shantung peninsula was last week nipped off by Japanese forces. They not only completed the capture of Tsingtao (TIME, Jan. 10), but with little fighting gained control at one stroke of 11,000 square miles, their biggest haul in weeks. It was a profitless victory in one respect, for they found Chinese had wrecked and burned some $100,000,000 of Japanese property, mostly factories and warehouses, including 438 Japanese private homes in Tsingtao. This, however, will provide a good excuse for demanding an indemnity and the forehanded Japanese promptly valued their wrecked houses at some...
...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...
...South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered in Maine; a most important series of 2609 plants of eastern arctic Canada; 698 finely preserved and botanically significant plants of the alpine areas of Alaska; 330 plants from Maine; 22 critical ferns of Florida; 171 rarer plants of the Delaware Peninsula; and 2434 of the rarer plants of Quebec and Ontario...
Japan's new strategy of trying to nip off Shanghai and the tip of the Shanghai Peninsula by means of pincer armies closing in from North and South (TIME, Nov. 15), succeeded last week in relentless, smashing style. Long-eared Japanese Commander-in-Chief General Iwane Matsui helped his infantry pincers close by turning loose Japan's most potent naval and land artillery, hurled great projectiles screaming clear over the International Settlement to score hits on Chinese positions at as much as 7,500 yards (about four miles...
Morale of the Chinese troops continued excellent, but Shanghai's foreign military observers had begun to speak of a probable Chinese G. H. Q. decision to evacuate the whole Shanghai peninsula and this week the evacuation began while jubilant Japanese pounced without resistance upon sectors which for three months have been bitterly contested. The chief technical advisers of the Chinese G. H. Q. are German officers who during the World War served under Ludendorff and Hindenburg. Last week Colonel E. Ott, Military Attache of the German Embassy at Tokyo, had come to Shanghai and was perspiringly explaining to vexed...