Word: swatow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he made a deep and unremitting study. In his hot spot in the Far East he sat coolly, made the U. S. fist in Asia something to be reckoned with. Last summer the Japanese Navy warned a U. S. destroyer out of China's port of Swatow. "We're staying at Swatow," radioed Admiral Yarnell, said further that he would hold Japan responsible for U. S. lives lost. The State Department backed him. The Japanese Navy respectfully thanked him for his "sympathetic attitude." The U. S. destroyer, unmolested, stayed at Swatow...
...Swatow, the Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of Chinese unenthusiastically shouting anti-British slogans and throwing stones at the British Consulate. Great Britain apologized...
...Swatow. Japan's victory-of-the-week over China was at the treaty port of Swatow, 180 miles north of Hong Kong. Here Japan also suffered a minor diplomatic defeat from western nations. Once a city of 178,000, Swatow had been bombed by Japanese planes daily for the last ten weeks. All electric lights had been cut off, the waterworks were out of order, the municipal buildings were all destroyed. By day Swatow was a deserted city, but at night, when no bombers came, it hummed with shipping activity. To the port came British, French, U. S., Scandinavian...
...Chinwangtao, some 1,500 miles North, where he had gone after a brief inspection trip to Tientsin. He replied by 1) ordering the Pillsbury to remain, 2) dispatching another destroyer, the Pope, to the spot. The British seconded the U. S. by not only keeping the Thanet at Swatow but by sending the Scout to join her. Nothing happened to the ships, nor to any of the U. S. or British nationals ashore...
Tientsin. Having backed down at Swatow, the Japanese military at Tientsin, where they claimed the British were harboring anti-Japanese terrorists (TIME, June 26), became ever bolder. Live wire encircled the British and French Concessions, had by week's end killed a cat and a coolie. As food got scarcer, 1,500 Britons within the area realized that for all practical purposes they were imprisoned. Those who tried to get in or out were stripped, searched, cuffed. The colony settled down to make the best of the situation. Unable to go to the British Country Club, outside the Concession...