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...Inside one hazel nut lie 3,000 silver spoons, all beaten by the skillful hand of Ah King, Canton silversmith...
When China first split into several "Governments," the Hai Chi and Hai Shen picked the Canton Government of Sun Yat-sen in the south. Later they sold out to the great northern war lord, Wu Pei-fu, next to Chang Hsueh-liang, the son of Wu's archenemy; still later to Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Two years ago they blandly deserted once more to their old friends, the Cantonese navy. Last fortnight, completely unable to decide whom to desert to, they steamed out of Canton past the fire of the Cantonese land forts into the neutral British harbor...
...bill calls for construction of 24 ships and 555 airplanes, addition of 11,667 officers & men. ¶Rejected, because the Post Office Department had not sanctioned it, a Senate amendment to the Treasury-Post Office supply bill providing $2,000,000 for airmail service from San Francisco to Canton, China. Post Officers declared the service would cost the Department $1,820,000 per year, bring in only $600,000 per year...
Another distant subsidiary of Pan American is China National Aviation Corp. which flies up the coast of China from Canton to Peiping and westward across the middle of China, from Shanghai to Chengtu. Last week this company opened in southwestern China a new branch from Chungking to Yunnanfu, Yunnan Province...
Harry Jee, Canton-born 27 years ago, is editor of the Chinese Journal, one of two Chinese dailies in New York City. The Chinese Nationalist Daily is conservative, regular; the Journal, militantly liberal, highly irregular. Its eight pages of Chinese text are written in longhand by Editor Jee and two assistants. Eight compositors, lightning fast at their trade, set the Chinese characters by hand at the rate of half a column per hour. The Journal is read by 6,500 Chinese...