Word: tientsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Penrose Rushton Coodet son, grandson and son-in-law of British admirals, strode the bridge of H. M. S. Peacock and trained his guns upon the iniquitous Boxers of Tientsin. For that they gave him the China Medal. In 1904, on the bridge of H. M. S. Dryad he plowed the Indian Ocean from the Strait of Malacca to the Gulf of Aden, trained his guns on Mohammed bin Abdullah, the mad Mullah of Somaliland. For that they made him a Medal & Clasp Commander. In 1914, -15, -16, -17 on the flagship of the British Destroyer Flotilla, he trained...
...they claimed they had given him to buy airplanes. After the suit was withdrawn, Hall returned to China to engage in further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed a $10,000 check intended as payment for German pistols that were never delivered. Since U. S. citizens enjoy extraterritorial rights in China, the arrest was not made...
...with bombing planes have recaptured Dolonnor. "Lies! Lies!" he grinned when told that the recapture had just been confirmed by both Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and the Japanese War office. Still grinning and munching ripe fruit, War Lord Feng pulled out of Peiping on his special train for Tientsin. Half way there he and his regiment changed to an armored train sent up from Shantung Province by his fellow war lord Governor Han Fu-chu of Shantung whom he appears to trust. Under Han's protection Feng lived during the summer of 1932 on Taishan, the Sacred Mountain...
Though Korea was annexed by Japan 23 years ago, there are Koreans still ready to fight for their own country. In Manhattan's Mott St. last week young Chinese gathered round their Consul, respected Dr. Yih, to hear from Korean Dr. Kiusic Kimm, secretary of Tientsin's Peiyang College, what had become of $10,000,000 sent by Chinese and Korean residents of the U. S. to help China's heroic 19th Route Army battle the Japanese invaders of Shanghai (TIME...
...General Hsiung was obliged to walk across a dusty road, through a network of new barbed wire and trenches, to the Japanese garrison's barracks. Inside he saluted Japanese Major-General Neiji Okamura whom he outranked, signed the curt truce agreement. Then General Hsiung and colleagues returned to Tientsin, prepared to hand their resignations to Nationalist Dictator Chiang Kaishek...