Word: wuchang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river gunboats picked on Hankow last week because on the fourth anniversary of Japan's seizure from China of Manchuria (TIME. Sept. 28. 1931 et seq.) posters were stuck up in Chinese barracks at Hankow and Wuchang reading simply "Remember Our Loss." This, according to the cocky commander of Japan's gunboats last week, "constitutes intolerable anti-Japanese propaganda for which the Imperial Japanese Government demands full satisfaction and punishment of the guilty Chinese...
...Hankow, nearly 600 miles up the muddy Yangtze River, is the Chicago of China, then round-faced youthful General Yeh Peng, Garrison Commander of the Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang) is the Chinese Chicago's boss. But General Yeh Peng is a far more admirable character than many of the unofficial lords of Chicago. Only a little while ago he was presented with a silver-plated eagle on a globe for persuading 200 cadets and members of his staff to join the Chinese Y. M. C. A. and contribute $2,000. Only a little while before that...
...Francis Cho-min Wei, President of Hua Chung College (Central China College), Wuchang, China, will give three public lectures on Confucianism at Harvard, Oct. 29, 30, and 31, and will conduct morning chapel at Harvard College...
...native of Canton, China. He graduated from Boone College, Wuchang, in 1911 with highest honors, and took his M.A. at Boone in 1915, his M.A. at Harvard University in 1919, and his Ph.D. from London University. He has been a member of the staff of Boone College since his graduation there. In 1929 he became president of Central China College, successor to Boone College, after being its acting president for two years...
Married. Louise Frances Gilman, daughter of Bishop Alfred A. Gilman of Wuchang, China; and Francis Stevenson Hutchins, head of Yale-in-China, son of President of Berea College William J. Hutchins, brother of Chicago University's Robert Maynard Hutchins; in Montclair...