Word: soochow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best part of Two Worlds deals with China. Lester Cohen had wanted to find out something definite about the Chinese Soviets in the interior, had even contemplated trying to visit them. But after he had lived in Shanghai, Nanking, Soochow, Peiping, met an anti-Japanese volunteer who used a cigaret tin for a gas mask, seen "bandit-artists" being led off to jail because their pictures ran counter to government decrees, been offered a Chinese virgin for $17, his desire to learn more about the Chinese revolutionists left him. Day after day he thought he could see the social fabric...
...owned shoe store was opened in Shanghai with a challenge: "We propose to establish the first up-to-date chain store system ever attempted in China." Open or opening shortly are two Bat'a stores in Nanking, two in Foochow, two in Ningpo, one each in Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade of foreigners and the upper classes, but that...
Thus Minister Johnson turned the other cheek to 60 Japanese bluejackets who the night previous had climbed the high, spiked gate of the International Settlement near Soochow Creek and rushed with fixed bayonets upon a Chinese crowd technically under the protection of the 31st U. S. Infantry. Lunging at these Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish...
With the greatest respect and deepest regret we beg to inform you that, when on February 23 at about 3 p. m., six piratic airplanes from the invading Japanese Navy were circling over Soochow, dropping bombs on an entirely unarmed and innocent civilian population, destroying lives and property alike in a wanton fashion unheard, of before, your heroic son Robert Short, flying a Boeing plane, engaged in a fight with the above planes, and after a 10-minute machine gun fire, he was shot and nose-dived to death...
While last week's situation amounted to a definite lull, it was not without disquieting developments. An official Japanese statement insisted that more than 30,000 Chinese troops were massing around Soochow; that large numbers of Chinese snipers had been smuggled into Shanghai; that a Chinese incendiary plot to destroy the Japanese college at Nantao had been narrowly frustrated. Four new divisions of Chinese soldiers were reported to be proceeding from Chekiang to Shanghai. According to Japanese authorities, Chinese were transporting cement and barbed wire to Sungkiang for the construction of defense works...