Word: hong
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...position. The strain of war-time duties is generally known to have taxed her health and this probably will be given as the reason for her resignation in the near future." Actually during the past month Mme Chiang has been diving quietly in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, leaving the active command of what she always called "my airforce" to others...
...Graduate School of Engineerin: Gordon McKay scholarships to Hong Huang of Tai-chow, China, Kenneth S. Lane of Concord, New Hampshire, and Leang Pieh-Yeh of Canton, China...
Back last week from the safety of British Hong Kong to often-bombed Hankow sped Chinese Premier Dr. H. H. Kung. There he met Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek whom Chinese newspapers had reported personally leading 400,000 troops against the Japanese in North China. Generalissimo Chiang and his German military adviser, General (retired) Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen, chatted optimistically with correspondents, while they watched several newly arrived Soviet battle planes take the air against Japanese bombers...
...Chinese Premier, Dr. H. H. Kung, was found last week to have quietly left Hankow, where his Government continued to organize resistance to the Japanese, and arrived in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. There he was greeted by Mme Kung, her brother, No. 1 Chinese Financier T. V. Soong, and her famed sisters, Chinese Air Force Chief Mme Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Sun Yatsen, widow of the sainted "Father of the Chinese Republic...
Saint Sun's son, Mr. Sun Fo, who recently went from Hankow to Hong Kong and from there to Europe (TIME, Jan. 3), was in Moscow last week and-contrary to the general impression that Mr. Sun has been successfully negotiating Soviet aid for China - Correspondent Walter Duranty cabled his opinion that J. Stalin & Co. were cold-shouldering China...