Word: rickshaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese Premier & Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, instead of dashing to his office at Hankow in a limousine with motorcycle escort, last week was whisked to work in a rickshaw escorted by guards on bicycles. Other Chinese bigwigs were warned to follow the Premier's example of thrift. The Government even discouraged the buying of silk and drinking of tea "as these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable...
...stand off the Chinese. These peppered the Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing the Chinese until Japanese re-enforcements rushed up to relieve the garrison. Meanwhile wounded Chinese had set off in rickshaws to receive treatment at Peiping, only a 14-mi. run for sturdy Chinese rickshaw coolies. Several of these wounded Peace Preservation Corps heroes were asked by correspondents. "But why did you turn against Yin? Aren't you and he supposed to be pro-Japanese...
Shanghai, China: Do not go into side streets or alleyways and especially avoid solicitations of rickshaw pullers and boatmen...
Included also are rare first editions of "Departmental Ditties," and "Plain Tales from the Hills." Many of the first editions collected by Mrs. Livingston are paper bound and their covers are known to have been designed by Kipling's father. These paper bound items include "Soldiers Three," "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkle," "Under the Deodars," and "In Black and White...
...heiress decide to part forever: East is East and West is West. This scrap of traveler's lore is hardly made to seem more stimulating or original by the events leading up to the renunciation scene, in which Dmitri effects a six-months' rise from rickshaw-boy to international financier while his inamorata is gracefully rejecting the countersuit of a flaccid young American (Fred Keating...