Word: wanhsien
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...American Airways' auditing department received a bill from the constabulary of Wanhsien, China, which, translated, read: "Board bill for one rescued soul, $3.18, Mexican." Cheap enough, agreed the auditors, but why the bill? Intracompany investigation led to Captain C. S. Vaughn, P.A.A. pilot on the Miami-Rio de Janeiro run, who used to fly on the China...
...paint men throughout the world. Its industry boomed in the 1920's parallel with the U. S. building boom. The producing area for the Hankow supply is up the Yangtze River beyond the famed gorges in Szechwan Province next to Tibet. The big city in the area is Wanhsien. Opium and rice are the district's two other products. The nuts are gathered by coolie labor and the oil extracted in crude wooden presses made of hollowed logs. It is carried to Hankow in paper containers holding 30-gal. hooped with bamboo. It is purified in Hankow, barged...
...protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...
Controlling himself, Viscount Cecil rapped out that from what he knew of the incident at Wanhsien it was "not at all as described...
Above the Yangtze Rapids, at Wanhsien, a British river gunboat expedition penetrated in sufficient force to intimidate the local dictator, General Yang Sen, who was prevailed upon to release two British river steamers recently seized...