Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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International News Service correspondents at Shanghai quoted Japanese "circles" as saying that Führer Adolf Hitler had assured Japan that he would serve Britain with an ultimatum-on March 6. The implication was that Japan was preparing for that day, too, probably with a squeeze on Russia...
...Shanghai, Chinese patriots played the grimmer game of "shoot the traitors," killed Tcheng Loh, Foreign Minister in Japan's "Reformed" Nanking Government, a former Chinese Minister to France (1920-27). Like many of his colleagues, Tcheng Loh found Nanking too hot for him, some time ago took refuge in the Japanese-controlled quarter of Shanghai, leaving detailed administration in Nanking to his Japanese advisers. Even in Shanghai, however, Japan finds it difficult to protect her creatures. Tcheng Loh was the 52nd victim of political assassination in the Shanghai area since Japanese occupation of the city...
Last week New York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend offered another and more sensational reason why there has not been more fighting. From Shanghai, Correspondent Abend cabled that military experts in the Far East had had their eyes on Japanese troop movements from the Chinese occupied zones northward toward the Siberian-Manchukuo border. So many soldiers have been withdrawn, said Mr. Abend, that the Canton area is now held by only 25,000 men, the huge Yangtze Valley and Central China districts by only...
...good reason why General Wu has no desire at present to become a Japanese puppet was not hard to understand. By week's end in Shanghai, patriotic Chinese assassins rubbed out one more of a score of their countrymen for connivance with the Japanese. His name was Mao Yu-hong and his briefly held job was Secretary General to the puppet Nanking Government...
...classical Mandarin (North China) dialect. Chinese movie stars are borrowed from the Chinese stage and music halls. Average picture-production cost is about $15,000. Invasion by Japan has not interrupted Chinese cinema production. While Sable Cicada, which took two years to make, was in production at Shanghai, the studio was bombed twice. (Studio officials kept blueprints of the sets so that, in case of serious damage, they could be promptly rebuilt...