Word: hongkong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops-as compared to an estimated 10,000 which Britain has based at Hong Kong. The odds are so long against them that the British command has already decided to abandon the Crown Colony in the event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles for. Furthermore, prospect of sudden inclusion of the Comintern in the Anti-Comintern Front (see p. 21) was bound to be as much...
Blockade. Next step of the Japanese was to declare a blockade of the Chinese coast from Shanghai almost to Hongkong. At first Japan announced that the blockade would be aimed only against Chinese shipping. Few days later, still without formal declaration of war, Japan went one better, threatened that U. S., British and other foreign ships would also be searched for contraband if they put in at Chinese ports. Despite this neither London nor Washington put down a firm foot even when the British freighter Shengking, on its way to evacuate refugees from Shanghai, was questioned by a Japanese warship...
...enterprise with luck, the Associated Press obtained one of the most complete picture beats of the year. It got a fine shot of the bombing of the Shanghai waterfront (see p.19) and many pictures of the dead piled up in the streets. The photographs were rushed by plane to Hongkong, put on the Clipper for San Francisco and delivered to U. S. member papers ten days after the cameras clicked. Other picture agencies were beaten by a week because their boat failed to catch the Clipper at Manila...
...first China Clipper transpacific air mail to Hongkong, Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth) sent Mme Chiang Kai-shek six peach trees...
There is still no way to get from California to China on a scheduled airline, but after three years of exploration and exploitation, Pan American Airways promises there will be April 21 when regular service is started on its 690-1111. hop from Manila to Hongkong. Meantime, last week the ship that is going to make this run was 9,000 mi. away in the Antipodes making the first test flight over Pan American's second great transpacific venture, the 7,000 mi. airway from California to New Zealand...