Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shanghai, about 750 miles southeast from Peking in the Province of Kiangsu. At Shanghai, the greatest treaty port of China, where the trouble began, the situation was well in control and the city was said to resemble "an armed camp." The strike, declared after the shooting of Chinese, began to wane, but shipping remained completely tied up throughout the week. Chang Hsuehliang, son of Tuchun Chang Tso-lin ("strongest man in China"), arrived with 2,000 cadets to maintain order. Despite precautions, the British Consul was beaten. A British and Japanese boycott was declared but had little effect...
...kiang, about 400 miles southeast of Shanghai on the Yangtsze-kiang River in the inland Province of Kiangsi, and about 130 miles southwest of Hankow. The British and Japanese Consulates were wrecked, and the Japanese Consulate and other Japanese buildings were burned by infuriated mobs. No casualties were reported...
Pole, Amundsen's direct line of retreat, circling south and east on their way back. The success of this search would rest largely on whether or not Amundsen had got marooned on drift ice, which would carry him southeast, around the tip of Greenland at the 'rate of about 10 miles a day. MacMillan's third plane would wait at Etah or Cape Columbia in case the rescuers needed rescuing...
Most of the Ambassadors and Ministers accredited to the Turkish President, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, reside in their old embassies at Constantinople, although the new capital and the Turkish Parliament is at Angora (about 240 miles southeast of Constantinople, in the heart of Anatolia...
...mystery of two champagne bottles recently unearthed by the workmen engaged in remodelling the interior of Massachusetts Hall. The two sinful bottles were discovered reposing side by side in a rusted tin tub at the bottom of an unused and forgotten well under the southeast corner of the old building. They were handed over to Mr. C. R. Apted, Superintendent of Caretakers...