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...erected at strategic points within the city, had been taken down. Under cover of the bombardment, Japanese blue-jackets landed five miles outside the city and engaged in sporadic hostilities with detachments of the Chinese garrison. Meanwhile, the Drum watchtower, which has warned Nanking citizens of danger since the Ming dynasty, sounded its strident alarm and refugees from Shanghai piled into British steamers, anxious to get back as quickly as they could. Also at Nanking was the U. S. destroyer Simpson. As the first shells screamed over the city the Simpson hustled out of the way. At Shanghai martial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Fire | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...could get nowhere. It was forced to beg Chiang Kai-shek to return. That he did last week as acknowledged head of the Chinese Army. Next move was the resignation of Sun Fo. He took with him Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, received promises of support from General Shen Ming-shu, commander of the troops stationed in Shanghai. Sneered Chen: "The conference at Nanking reminds one of a people facing conquest. Chiang Kai-shek is ready to tell Japan to go as far as she likes." But General Chiang, with his Cantonese enemies out of the way, once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Adroit Chiang | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...Ming and Skipper, Chows of Portland, Ore., who stood off a cougar while their mistress escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Spratt Award | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Other members of the Faculty who will be absent are: R. L. Hawkins '03, associate professor of French; W. C. Ford lecturer on Historical manuscripts; Daniel Sargent '12, instructor in history and literature; L. S. Mayo '10 Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Alfred Kai-Ming Chiu, instructor in the Chinese language and literature; W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor of history; and Dr. A. C. Redfield '13 assistant professor of Physiology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 21 PROFESSORS TO BE ABSENT DURING NEXT SCHOOL YEAR | 5/6/1930 | See Source »

...brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best cat in the show: Lavender Choice of Runnymede. blue male. Best of opposite sex: Pansy 0-So-Bonne, blue-eyed white. Best novice: Saxby Silver Miss Floss. Best novice of opposite sex: Ming Quong Gam Sing Quah, Siamese male. Best two kittens: North-ledge Desperado, Azurine Allure of Silver-land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fish, Flesh & Fowl | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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