Word: wuchang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Government set up by the victorious Cantonese forces at Wuchang (TIME, Dec. 13) was on its best behavior last week as British Minister Miles Wedderburn Lampson arrived at Hankow just across the Yangtze. An anti-British strike which had impended at Hankow was called off. The Cantonese General Chiang Kai-shek and the Contonese Foreign Minister Dr. Eugene Chen received Minister Lampson in state, as well as Japanese and U.S. consular representatives...
...Minister Lampson announced that his real business in China is not with the impotent vanishing "Government" at Peking to which he is accredited, but with the new, potent Cantonese Government which already controls half China and was moved last week to its new Capital, the recently captured city of Wuchang (TIME, Oct. 18), which is just across the river from Hankow. When Minister Lampson left for Hankow "on his way to Peking" last week, he went 1,500 miles "out of his way," if he ever intends to go to Peking at all. Next day the press of Shanghai, quick...
...policies. Since Sun Yat-Sen's death, the Southern faction has succeeded in forging their own province into the only real government in China, and two months ago their Revolutionary Army captured by force of arms the three great industrial cities of Central China--Hankow, Hanyang, and Wuchang...
Mopping up. Of the two commanders who had defended Wuchang, General Liu Yu-chun was dragged from the house of Dr. A. M. Sherman, Principal of the Central China University, where he had taken refuge; and General Chen Kaimu, onetime Governor of Hupeh province was seized as he fled Wuchang in coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion...
...Chinese Red Cross proceeded speedily to bury 3,000 citizens of Wuchang who died of starvation during the siege. Contrary to rumor, the foreign population was found to have suffered no war casualties or deaths by starvation. Within the week Wuchang pulsed once more with normal industry, dozed behind its ancient walls...