Word: wuchang
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...hundred thousand Chinese drew taut their belts last week, faced starvation with what fortitude they might. For three weeks they had been besieged in the walled city of Wuchang. Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek, the Cantonese Communist War Lord had ringed them round with a besieging army of 100,000 mercenaries. He demanded the surrender of the city, its arsenals, its ironworks, its mint. Terrified, the civil inhabitants would have acquiesced, surrendered. They were prevented from surrendering their own city by the military garrison left behind by Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, as he retreated before Chang Kai-shek (TIME...
Docile fatalists, the citizens of Wuchang, grew hungrier day by day, struck no blow for themselves...
...Wuchang, a rich and potent city just across the river from Hankow, held out against Chang last week, though the siege which he laid to it reduced the inhabitants (including 21 U. S. citizens) to a state bordering on famine...
...clear day, the students of Yali College, Changsha (Yale-in-China), were engaged in a football* game against Boone University of Wuchang. Play was heated; the referee was somnolent; a bullethead from Yali altercated with a slant-eyed Wuchang. Fists flew; both teams stopped to watch the scufflers. Suddenly, into the melee, came pelting a gentleman in a long gown of scholarly silk-Professor Kau (Yali). Forthwith, he smote down the Yali scuffler, strode away...
...Wuchang and the delightful country around it, real Chinese life, unchanged by foreign influence, may be seen. But just across the Yangize River from Wuchang and easily reached by ferry is Hankow, a city of foreign concessions, where there is a considerable number of American and British business men and most of the advantages of western life may he had. Boone has recently united with some other schools to form a Central China University and has started on a period of expansion...