Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pamiat Lenina swung away from the bund at Shanghai, slowly churned her steadygoing way up the great river Yangtze. Mme. Borodin left her cabin and stood on the bridge with the Captain...
From Hankow, Michael Markovitch Borodin communicated frantically with Moscow and Soviet Russian representatives in Peking and Shanghai. Soon "demands" were made by the Soviet Government upon the great Northern War Lord Chang Tsolin, theoretically the feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable...
...Between the Northern and Southern Chinese factions struggling for Shanghai (TIME, Oct. 4 et seq.) no important engagement occurred, last week, but the Southerners were strengthened by the sudden desertion to their cause of a previously neutral War Lord, Chen Tiao-yung, Governor of Anhwei, a province so located as to threaten seriously the rear of the Northern forces, if Chen has really turned against them...
...Fugitive Occidental missionaries from the interior of China, to a total of about 1,200, were at Shanghai, during the week...
...Nine hundred and fifty thousand pounds ($4,600,000) were appropriated by the British House of Commons to finance the British expeditionary force at Shanghai...