Word: tientsin
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...childhood. Now there are even less in Peking than in New York. Canton has a few, but Canton is not as well administered and was liberated later than Peking. During last year's competition to see which city is best administered, Peking received, I think, five red stars. Tientsin also received five stars, but Canton received none. Hankow, a little worse than Canton, received the black star. About the worker's attitude, on the train leaving Canton we tried to tip some of the trainmen because they were exceptionally courteous and helpful to us--but when we offered...
Last week the Chinese Communist leaders were reacting like all Communist leaders who get frightened. From Canton in the south up through Shanghai and Tientsin in the north, Red China echoed to the crack of the executioner's bullet. It was the widest and crudest Communist purge the world had seen since Stalin's war against Russia's middle-class peasants 20 years...
...Maryknoll leaders in Wuchow were arrested about the same time as Dr. Wallace. In Hong Kong last week, the Communist newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported the arrest of 19 people in Tientsin as spies "under the camouflage of the Catholic Church...
...still trying to get ship passage, promised to be home "inside of a couple of months." Four months later, John Graham got a Christmas card which indicated that she had written several letters he had not received. She still couldn't complete arrangements" to leave the seaport of Tientsin...
...five hours' delay, without food for a whole day, [we were] taken to a filthy Chinese hotel for the night. At no time were we allowed to get in touch with [H.M.'s charge d'affaires at Peking]. On 31st December, we went by train to Tientsin under escort, were placed in the Rich hotel and not allowed to leave the bedroom or talk with anyone . . . We were then put on board the S.S. Heinrich Jessen for Hong Kong...