Word: tientsin
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...championship of Candidate Hoover, last week, Tang Shao-yi declared with emotion: "I am actuated ... by a sense of justice, and also [by] gratitude for Mr. Hoover's acts in rescuing my family during the Boxer uprising . . . when he lived across the street from my family in Tientsin...
...equivalent of two million dollars gold was subscribed to a "vengeance fund," last week at Tientsin, by enraged surviving relatives of great Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916). He was the last of the Manchu Viceroys, and became in 1912 the second President of the Chinese Republic. Last week his sons were made irate by reports that Yuan's mighty tomb in Honan, his native province, has recently been looted and denied by the itinerant so-called Christian War Lord, Feng Yu-hsiang, who has now made Honan his base (TIME...
Resourceful, Mrs. Hoover carried off a shelling and the pillage of her Tientsin home by Cossacks during the Boxer uprising,*no less gracefully than she presided over cosmopolitan gatherings...
...Department issued a call last week for volunteers to sail for Tientsin with the 15th U. S. Infantry. Said the call: "Applicants . . . will face the most severe enlistment requirements the Army has ever set up. . . . Ex-service men must have been discharged with excellent character to be eligible. Volunteers without prior service must be at least 25 instead of the usual 18 years and of unusually fine character and physique...
...Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, famed "fighting hell-devil Marine." Last week General Butler personally directed U. S. Marines who fought for more than 24 hours and finally extinguished a fire which threatened the $25,000,000 petroleum stores of the Standard Oil Company of New York, at Tientsin (near Peking...