Word: tientsin
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...sharp fighting raged between Japanese and Chinese last week in Tientsin worried U. S. citizens in this great Chinese city decided they would be safer if they showed the Stars & Stripes, discovered that the only purchasable U. S. flags in town were all stamped "Made in Japan" and offered by genial dealers who had jacked up the price of a small flag from $1 to $3-about the weekly wage of a Tientsin coolie...
...taking no chances with U. S. warships in Chinese waters. The U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, was ordered out of Tsingtao and steamed rapidly to Vladivostok on a "goodwill" voyage to Soviet Russia. Even more pointedly the U. S. S. Tulsa, which was steaming toward Tientsin to give her gobs the pleasure of shore leave amid its Chinese night spots, was ordered to turn tail and steam for Chefoo...
...Tientsin Shambles. General Kazuki meanwhile had blundered spectacularly at Tientsin, the teeming port through which during the past month Japan has poured an invading army (TIME, July 26). So deceptively abject were the local Chinese population, its coolies meekly unloading Japanese munitions and its Chinese officials blandly obliging, that General Kazuki did not bother to keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well...
...what seemed to him the stubborn slowness of Chinese forces to yield to his demands that they clear out of North China (TIME, July 26). In an action which Japanese officials described as "maintaining prestige," General Kazuki had Japanese airmen heavily bomb Langfang, a station between Peiping and Tientsin on the railway from which area he was insisting that the Chinese 29th Army withdraw...
...retired in 1919 to become one of the world's leading authorities on and ablest players of bridge; in New York. Died. Lt.-Gen. Kanichiro Tashiro, 56, predecessor of Lt.-Gen. Kiyoshi Kazuki as Commander of the Japanese North China garrison (see p. 18); of heart disease; in Tientsin, China...