Word: tientsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastern Hopei lies between the Great Wall of Peiping and the vitally important port of Tientsin. One of the first moves of Puppet Yin was to cut customs duties to 25% of those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
...Bible, and the man himself deserves a greater place in U. S. hearts than Warlord Sung. He is Yao Chen-yuan, 80-year-old Chinese Christian, sole known survivor of the four native messengers who got through (and the dozen who didn't) with messages to Tientsin asking relief for the besieged legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion. Disguised as a beggar, Yao made the 90-mile trip on foot through country overrun with Boxers who were killing every Christian-Chinese or foreign-they could find. Captured many times, Yao always talked himself out. For his heroism...
Pirates with Champagne. Another time Editor Woodhead had the myrmidons of Chinese justice hunting for that dangerous conspirator "Hans Andersen whose volume of Fairy Tales for the children may be purchased at a low price at the Tientsin Press." Although Chinese pride themselves on their own sense of humor, it never occurred to them that a scholarly British editor, who got out in English each year the fat, solemn, statistics-crammed China Year Book, could possibly have a sense of humor, fantasy and practical joking...
...only natural, then, that when trouble occurred in Manchuria he should follow developments with great attention, and wonder whether he was not destined to play some part in an attempt to improve the condition of his ancestral Provinces. Emissaries of the Separatist movement called upon him at Tientsin and urged him to proceed to Manchuria. And at last he felt that if he was ever to go. he must do so forthwith, or he might find it impossible to leave...
...course of an address to the students of Hongkong University, lauded the administration of the colony and urged his audience to learn the British example and 'carry the example of good government to all parts of China,' told Japanese interviewers, on his way to Tientsin, that he hated 'the Britishers' more than they hated him, that they were 'the worst lot imaginable.' and that they were 'a curse to China.' Borodin preceded him to Peking. Dr. Sun had hardly reached the northern port when two of his old followers publicly repudiated...