Word: warboats
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...China, making personal investigations on the spot. Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, pushed his tour of China (TIME, May 9) to the extreme of venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME, Jan. 24). Later Mr. Bingham pushed on to Ichang, in the extreme upper reaches of the Yangtze...
...spoke with more animation of the firing, in reprisal, upon Nanking by a British and a U. S. warboat: "I remember that my father came to the boat on the morning of March 24 and told us* to 'be steady.'" "He thought we would be able to go back to the city and continue working in a few days, even though conditions were so unsettled...