Word: himly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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If incidents were needed to sting Britain into a fighting mood, the Japanese seemed determined to supply them last week as: 1) they bayoneted a British employe of a British-owned Shanghai mill, let him bleed to death; 2) prepared to isolate the British Concession in Tientsin for harboring Chinese...
Manhandled. Shanghai's muddy, winding, sampan-littered Whangpoo River divides the big modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the...
The Japanese beat everybody to the protest, complained to British Consul General Sir Herbert Phillips against R. M. Tinkler's "lawlessness toward a Japanese uniform." Said an Embassy spokesman: "That Japanese marines should have disarmed Tinkler and manhandled him is to be expected under the circumstances. We are surprised...
Arrested by Japanese military officials in Kalgan and held on a charge of spying, was Lieut. Colonel Christopher R. Spear, Military Attache of the British Embassy in China. Also arrested was Lieut. John Cooper who went to aid him. Later Lieut. Cooper was released after signing this statement:
With a 24-thread line, 10/0 reel and 18-oz. rod tip (much lighter tackle than is generally used), Mrs. Sears boated a 730-lb. blue marlin, a new world's record, in the Bahaman waters off Cat Cay.† It took her only one hour and 27 minutes...