Word: tsinan
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...Chinese department of Shantung Institute, is inactive now since the closing of the University in October. Although many of the teachers left Tsinan at this time it has been announced that the Institute's support will be available for the University when it reopens...
China's once potent Governor Han Fu-Chu of Shantung, who recently yielded his capital Tsinan to the Japanese, last week was exhorted to "Hold Tsining at any cost!" To Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (360 miles away at Hankow), who wired this advice, Governor Han wired back: "I could not hold Tsinan, so I do not believe I am able to hold Tsining...
...Although the Chinese authorities had executed 240 Chinese looters, Chinese mobs had destroyed $100,000,000 of Japanese property in Tsingtao by last week when Japanese forces finally crossed the Yellow River, besieged Tsinan, the capital of Shantung...
...consider the withdrawals from Tsinan and down the Peiping-Hankow railroad large defeats' he said. 'We have just begun to fight.' [Then] he went back to his maps...
...Japanese advance on land toward Shantung had approached so near its capital, Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland...