Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese forces, advancing by land and water up the Yangtze River toward Hankow, were delayed last week besieging the Chinese Lion Hill Forts 145 miles down stream near Kiukiang. Daring Chinese fliers in swift, efficient Soviet-built planes bombed and battered Japanese river gun boats, claimed to have sunk 25 and badly damaged 19. None denied that numbers of disabled Japanese craft were being towed down the Yangtze for repairs at Shanghai, Chinese spokesmen even admitted boldly that planes which hitherto have been driving Japanese bombers away from Hankow and the other Wuhan cities last week, left this defensive work...
...decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down the Pearl River...
...stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling. Shortly, river transport on the Niemen will open between the two countries. Last week Minister Beck alighted at Kaunas, the Lithuanian capital, paused there for half an hour of salutes, handshaking before he flew on to Riga, the Latvian capital. He was expected to make a formal visit to Kaunas soon, will...
Washington Avenue is a residential street that cuts due north and south through the low rolling hills of The Bronx. It begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult...
...Mystic, Conn., the 14th annual exhibition of the Mystic Art Association opened this week at Association galleries on the banks of the Mystic River. Cut more closely to the traditional pattern of summer shows than any other, with tea served on Thursday and young villagers holding square dances in the gallery, the Mystic exhibition was nevertheless far from stuffy, included an excellent oil by Kenneth Bates, a cocktail-hour scene At Five (see cut) by Robert Philipp, whose Dust to Dust won first honorable mention at last year's Carnegie International...