Word: swatow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken four months after the outbreak at Peking; Nanking, capital of China, fell one month later. Chinese officials fled Nanking, designated Chunking, far in the interior, as the seat of their Government...
...Chinese reinforcements in Swatow. in South China, expecting an attack...
...Japanese soldiers newly landed at Amoy, seaport north of Swatow...
...last fortnight, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa learned he could make a U. S. lecture tour only if accompanied by a doctor or nurse to prevent his spreading trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), Japan's No. 1 Christian speedily found a suitable attendant. On furlough from the American Baptist Mission in Swatow, Kwangtung, China was Dr. Velva Violet Brown, .a 44-year-old surgeon. Dr. Kagawa and his portly, solicitous companion chartered a plane for Amarillo, Tex. In the following seven days they visited Lubbock. Tex., Norman, Okla., Oklahoma City, Springfield, Mo., Memphis, Indianapolis. Getting used to his routine of eyewash...
...vital for China's future are the fleets of the Western Powers was demonstrated last week in Southeast China, far from the land front of Japanese expansion but thoroughly vulnerable by sea. Three weeks ago the Japanese flagship Tatsuta and ten destroyers steamed into Swatow to force Chinese customs officials to yield up a seized Japanese cargo of rice on which petty provincial taxes had not been paid (TIME, Oct. 14). With set faces, the Japanese Navy officers demanded restitution, apologies, punishment of Canton customs men, abolition of the annoying duties and the right of Japanese to trade...