Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tipped off by the local U. S. Consul, who had been tipped off by China's Nanking Government, 144 U. S. residents of Foochow, capital of rebel Fukien Province, last week scuttled out to a cheerless island in Foochow's River Min. At Amoy 125 mi. to the south the U. S. colony scuttled to another island...
Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
...great brother comprise today the Dynasty of Soong. Their father, the late, pious and ingenious Charles Jones ("Charlie") Soong, made money by printing in China millions of Bibles for the missionary trade. He helped to make history by harboring in his house and backing with his money the Great Rebel. Dr. Sun Yatsen, later First President of the Chinese Republic...
Meanwhile in Havana the ABC set civilian sharpshooters sniping at soldiers from the rooftops. Atares Fortress was a bloody shambles. In the midst of the siege a wild-eyed messenger burst into the Presidential palace shouting that Rebel Hernandez had been killed. It was true, and so had over 150 others. Atares surrendered...
...Clair's stable of actors, designers and technical men, Annabella is the only rebel. On the lot she refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract...