Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese infantry, slogging up the swampy banks of the Yangtze, supported by Japanese river gunboats and bombing planes, last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for the past month. In joyous terms, as though announcing a victory, the Chinese press boasted of the enormous quantities of shells and bombs the capture of Kiukiang had cost the Japanese. The heroic Chinese defenders of the Lion Hill Forts, sworn to fight to the last man rather than yield, were congratulated for having held out for 72 hours under heavy artillery fire before they fled...
Neutral military experts deduced from the information available that Chinese artillery has surprised the Japanese by its inaccuracy. Frail and thinly armored Japanese river gunboats had apparently been able to support the attackers. In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Most Government clerks and records had already been sent 650 miles further up river to Chungking. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chung-hui gave a farewell party to the press before he departed, followed by the envoys of the Great Powers...
...with the Leftists on the Ebro, reported that within 24 hours they endured 85 Rightist air raids-one about every 29 minutes), Generalissimo Franco hastily shifted effectives from his south to his north front. Meanwhile, he opened the floodgates of all dams on the Noguera Pallaresa and Segre Rivers, northern tributaries of the Ebro. sent a wall of water tearing down into the river which raised it from three to five feet. Rightist Pilot Heraclio Gautier flew over the river to photograph the effects of the flood on Leftist pontoon bridges. His plane was winged by some 200 bullets...
...left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four of the five coaches up on each other in a splintered, twisted mass like a smashed accordion. The coaches lay crumpled for hours in a river bed till cranes could be got into the mountains. Most of the injured were expected to die. It was the deadliest train wreck in West Indies' history...
Between Main Street of Delaware, Ohio, and the sluggish Olentangy River slopes the wooded campus of co-educational Ohio Wesleyan University.* The University's principal attractions (to about 1,350 students) are top-notch courses in physical education, business administration, zoology. Preeminence of zoology has been due to slender, rich-voiced Dr. Edward Loranus Rice, 67, who has instructed and delighted O. W. U. students for 40 years. Last week the board of trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after...