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...Leith-Ross, chief economic adviser to the British Government since 1932. Around to Japanese Consul General Shigeru Kawagoe (now Ambassador) he rushed to demand the end of Japanese smuggling into North China. Sucking his teeth politely, Consul General Kawagoe countered with comments on the thriving smuggling trade from British Hongkong to Canton...
...That has nothing whatever to do with it," snapped the Briton. "Smuggling from Hongkong is almost entirely conducted by Chinese of a low order, while North China's financial and economic status is being upset by Japanese and Koreans...
...another; consequently, the United States' representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing to this lack of bases. Great Britain, with many bases dotting the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean from Gibraltar to Hongkong, has been content with smaller ships of less fuel capacity. The two policies have naturally clashed in the attempts toward mutual agreement on fleet strength...
...late President Gomez of Venezuela. They never found the treasure ; the ship lost its rudder; the whole party was towed back to safety by the U. S. Coast Guard. Then Kilkenny sold his shipmates the idea of building a Chinese Junk, and sailing it the 10.000 miles from Hongkong through the Dutch East Indies around Cape Cormorin through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean and out again at Gibraltar, up the Seine and straight to the Paris Fair of 1937. Later, if all goes well, the craft will cross the Atlantic for the New York World's Fair...
...that city into a charnel-house, and completely subordinated himself and the Kuomintang to Moscow Communists. He, who had owed his life on at least two occasions to British protection, and who, less than two years previously, had, in the course of an address to the students of Hongkong University, lauded the administration of the colony and urged his audience to learn the British example and 'carry the example of good government to all parts of China,' told Japanese interviewers, on his way to Tientsin, that he hated 'the Britishers' more than they hated him, that...