Word: refugees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ In Shanghai a U. S. consulting engineer, W. H. Greenwood, 66, was set upon in the Chinese city by coolies who thought it good sport to flail his posteriors, raise welts upon his face, and knock out several of his teeth. When they released Mr. Greenwood, he was able...
Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer...
Marines of all the great powers stood guard about the international city of Shanghai, last week, protecting its 40,000 white inhabitants from the defeated Shantung soldiers and the victorious Nationalist troops fighting sporadically in the Chinese city of Shanghai, recently captured (TIME, March 28) by the Nationalists. ¶ Routed...
2) Not even in the Chinese quarter did anyone much care what happened. The city has been the prey of super-bandits, calling themselves "War Lords" for years; and all the inhabitants faced, last week, was the arrival of another army which might be a little more lenient about looting...
The situation at Nanking is admittedly serious. Americans who would have been herded out of the city three weeks ago but for the incompetence of the American authorities there have been caught in the street fighting between Nationalist advance guards and retiring Northerners. That it is the fault of U...