Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official reports were received. From Shanghai came indirect information of the disaster, and disaster was the one sure truth. A quake of unparalleled severity, fire, tidal waves, famine, explosives, hundreds of thousands of houses wrecked, hundreds of thousands of people killed?fact and fiction were woven in a horrible fabric of destruction and death...
...Shanghai-Peking train was held up near Tsinan, captial of Shantung Province, by bandits who kidnapped a number of foreign and Chinese passengers. On June 12, when the bandits accepted the Government's terms of an amnesty only eight foreigners remained in their hands, some having been freed, others having escaped. Of the eight liberated, four were U.S. citizens...
...Stein, also a U. S. citizen, was arrested in connection with the same charge and sent to Shanghai...
According to a despatch from Shanghai, a movement to forward moderate foreign intervention is growing among the foreigners resident in China. United States and British commercial bodies are well to the fore. The following steps are advocated...
Professor Dreyer is the son of a Danish naval captain, and was born in Shanghai. He was educated at Copenhagen and Oxford, and has been a professor at Oxford since 1907. He is the author of The Assessment of Physical Fitness...