Whangpoo

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  1. 1
    Dated form of Huangpu. alt-of, dated

    "Firing by Japanese warships upon the Chinese Woosung forts, at the mouth of the Whangpoo River twenty miles below Shanghai, began at 11:30 A.M. today, according to the Japanese Consulate, which charges that guns of the forts opened fire first, bombarding passing Japanese warships."

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whampoa

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"Firing by Japanese warships upon the Chinese Woosung forts, at the mouth of the Whangpoo River twenty miles below Shanghai, began at 11:30 A.M. today, according to the Japanese Consulate, which charges that guns of the forts opened fire first, bombarding passing Japanese warships."

Etymology

Anglicization of Shanghainese 黃浦 (hhuaan phu).

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