Word: rickshaws
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...stand off the Chinese. These peppered the Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing the Chinese until Japanese re-enforcements rushed up to relieve the garrison. Meanwhile wounded Chinese had set off in rickshaws to receive treatment at Peiping, only a 14-mi. run for sturdy Chinese rickshaw coolies. Several of these wounded Peace Preservation Corps heroes were asked by correspondents. "But why did you turn against Yin? Aren't you and he supposed to be pro-Japanese...
Shanghai, China: Do not go into side streets or alleyways and especially avoid solicitations of rickshaw pullers and boatmen...
Included also are rare first editions of "Departmental Ditties," and "Plain Tales from the Hills." Many of the first editions collected by Mrs. Livingston are paper bound and their covers are known to have been designed by Kipling's father. These paper bound items include "Soldiers Three," "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkle," "Under the Deodars," and "In Black and White...
...heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap of traveler's lore is hardly made to seem more stimulating or original by the events leading up to the renunciation scene, in which Dmitri effects a six-months' rise from rickshaw-boy to international financier while his inamorata is gracefully rejecting the countersuit of a flaccid young American (Fred Keating...
...Bitter Tea of General Yen (Columbia). A sweet and intelligent young woman whose forbears are New England puritans arrives in Shanghai from the U. S. to marry a handsome and fiery missionary. Two accidents occur. The young lady sees her rickshaw boy brutally run down by a Chinese brigand-general; her marriage ceremony is delayed because the missionary has to rescue six children from an orphanage in besieged Chapei. During the rescue, the young woman is kidnapped by the brigand-general who ran over the coolie. General Yen (Nils Asther) whisks Megan Davis to his summer palace, dresses...