Hankow
Britishnoun
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Samuel Pailthorpe King was born on April 13, 1916, in Hankow, China, the son of a commander of a United States Navy gunboat on the Yangtze River.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010
Japanese newsorgans, paced by the potent Tokyo Nichi Nichi and Osaka Mainichi, last week made ready to cover the long-awaited fall of Hankow.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Hankow, 135 miles above Kiukiang. the flight of the whole civilian population into the interior was ordered and organized last week by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was not subsequently confirmed, but within an hour after the announcement the previously silent streets of Hankow became a bedlam of exploding firecrackers amid which Chinese newsboys hopped about selling Independence Day "Victory Extras."
From Time Magazine Archive
Once the revolution began in earnest in Hankow, it was impossible to ignore it.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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