They liberated foochow on august 17 and amoy on october 17 .

八月十七日解放福州，十月十七日解放厦门。

Foochow dockyard is the biggest , most complete and most remarkable dockyard that the yang wu group has set up .

福州船政局是近代洋务派兴办的规模最大、门类最全、成效最显著的造船厂。

Native chinese newspapers have within a few years contained detailed accounts of an enforced suttee practised in a district near foochow .

福州附近某地有强迫寡妇殉夫的习俗，当地中国报纸几年前有过详细报道。

Regarding foochow city as the centre of the dialect , we may say that it extends , eastward to the sea , a distance of about thirty miles , northward , to the chekiang province , two hundred miles , and southward , to the hinghwa prefecture , seventy miles .

考虑到福州市是通行区的中心，于是我们可以说，福州话往东北可以延伸30英里，一直到海洋，向北延伸200英里，与浙江省接壤，南部延伸70英里，与兴化地区毗邻。