Word: woosung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nationalist Government with which he is out of sympathy, has long since made patrician Scholar Hu extremely careful of his delicate, parchment-like skin. For months he has spent his studious nights in the well guarded foreign quarter of Shanghai, venturing out only by day to the suburb of Woosung where he is president of a private college called the China National Institute. Recently, however, Dr. Hu, daring much, contributed to the leading Chinese intellectual review, the monthly Crescent Moon, three articles flaying the Nationalist Government. Last week Nationalist's militaristic leaders moved to take heavy-fisted vengeance on their...
...large and reliable source of income possessed by the Nanking Nationalists. Last week the native quarter of Shanghai was ineffectively bombed by hand grenades thrown from two hydroplanes belonging to Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin. The planes operated from the Peking cruiser Haichi which suddenly appeared before the Woosung forts, fired a few tentative broadsides and scuttled...