Word: tientsin
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...late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Revolution" of 1911 which overthrew China's ruling Manchu House. Next day Dr. Soong and Mr. Sun denied sponsoring the resolutions which, nevertheless, had passed and produced immediate results. Within a few hours Chinese patriots stole into the British Concession at Tientsin, approached the residence of the Japanese Consul General, threw a bomb which exploded with much noise, little effect...
Only 87 miles from Peiping at its seaport, Tientsin, is a powerful Japanese garrison. Tersely the Japanese Commander threatened the young Marshal thus: "If there are clashes between the Japanese Army and the forces of Marshal Chang in Jehol then the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will have no other course but to attack Peiping...
...Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison at Tientsin will render his treasure particularly safe. If on the contrary he sides with China, the Japanese will scarcely dare to seize treasure over which flies the flag of Italy...
Small (5 ft. 1 in.) Sari Maritza chose her name because she wanted a Viennese sounding one that no one would mispronounce. She considered her real one- Patricia Detering-Nathan- insufficiently romantic. Daughter of a British Army officer who owned a coal mine at Tientsin, she formed an inclination to be a cinemactress ten years ago while passing through Hollywood to England for her schooling. In 1928, when she was 18, a small part in an Austrian cinema got her a job with an English producing company. She was chosen for the lead in The Water Gypsies because Director Basil...
...China assumed that this order was what Japan and Old Etonian Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson had put over-that it was Japan's secret price for agreeing to evacuate. Raging mad, prominent Chinese sent telegrams from Peiping, Tientsin, Canton, Hankow and Shanghai demanding that the Chinese Government at Nanking resign, accusing its members of "betraying China...