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...sober truth that word and a few others fired the huge unarmed mob which forced the British to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession at Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week the world waited to see if the Chinese, a medley of tribes, had learned the white man's lessons well enough to stand together and force him from his $1,000,000,000 concessions at Shanghai...
...Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed last week with extra arms and ammunition for the infantry men at Tientsin. During the week the destroyer Pillsbury took off some 60 U. S. refugees, mob jostled, from Foochow, landed them at Manila...
...Briand must be arrested. . . . His Locarno policy is leading him toward the traitorous iniquity of abandoning the Rhineland to Germany. . . . When the mob learns how he is stripping from France her only safeguard, the day will come when M. Briand will be glad to be arrested and jailed beyond the reach of hands that tear and gouge...
Jack Down. Two days later a larger mob stormed the barricades of the British concession, tore them down in many places, ventured onto the Bund, screaming: "Down with British Imperialism! Kill the Britishmen...
...page of history turned. The gunboats could have raked Hankow, the marines could have shot down the mob-but an idea spiked the guns. John Chinaman, slop emptier, had bluffed the white...