The CAAC report said the Pan Am jetliner, an Airbus 300 flying from Peking to Tokyo, reported July 26 that a cockpit indicator showed two engine filters blocked, a sign of rust in the fuel‐line.
But by December 1941, conditions in Peking were deteriorating as the city prepared for a Japanese invasion.
We drove from Peking to Paris in six weeks.
This book describes the life of an English eccentric who lives in Peking during the tumultuous events at the turn of the century.
It won’t go away, because Peking won’t let it.
No one who has visited his school in Peking can have failed to have been struck with the rapidity and correctness with which his pupils read and write.
The welcome ceremony ended just before noon and the Americans were then escorted to their lodgings in Peking, where they spent the next few hours waiting, uncertain of what was in store for the rest of the day.