Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July to take possession of the northern part of Hopei Province. Their plans for an inexpensive pay-as-you-go conquest was rudely upset by the explosion at Shanghai when the Chinese attempted to bomb the Japanese admiral's flagship and attacked the Japanese forces in the International Settlement (TIME...
...this action was to relieve the Japanese bluejackets who for two weeks have been attacked in Shanghai and to save the 3,500,000 non-combatants in Shanghai from immediate danger. For the first time in a fortnight there were normal crowds in the streets. In the International Settlement urbane escapists sat in battered bars and scarred nightspots without fear of having their highball glasses blown from their fists...
Concentrating their forces last week in the Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection...
Pride of O. K. Yui was the city's $8,000,000 Civic Centre, a group of white marble buildings as imposing as anything in the International Settlement. Last week they were shelled to pieces by the guns of art-loving Admiral Yonai. Nearly half of Mayor Yui's great city was in flames and many thousands of his citizens were dead, but O. K. Yui has a chance of becoming a far greater hero than Mayor Wu ever...
Ward Road Jail. What claims to be the largest prison in the world, the Ward Road jail, capacity 8,000, stands on the edge of the Japanese part of the International Settlement under crossfire from both sides for over a week. Shells crashed right into the building last week, killed eight prisoners in the cells, wounded 70, drove several others insane. Volunteers from the International Settlement last week finally arranged for the prisoners to be evacuated in busses to the outskirts of the Chinese city. A morning's load of 500, guarded by British and U.S. armored cars...