Word: hong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's naval blockade spread last week to include all 2,150 miles of the China coast, omitting British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macao, and internationally crucial Tsingtao, though by week's end no important ship had yet been stopped or sunk...
...Hong Kong itself is an island topped with ''The Peak" (1,774 ft.), on the landward side of which clings the city of Victoria-a colorful jumble of Chinese tenements and British business blocks whose over-dignified architecture justifies the city's name...
Like the famed harbor of Rio de Janeiro, which it rivals in magnificence, the harbor of Hong Kong, British Crown Colony, is landlocked by mountains...
...Marines, a regiment of 1,050 men, which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists; 7) the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a brigade of mixed infantry and cavalry consisting principally of British and U. S. clerks and White Russian emigres...
...trip will be possible after April 28, when Pan American Airways begins flying passengers between Manila and Hong Kong (TIME, April 5). It can be made in 19 days. But United's round-the-world-trip allows 28, with sight-seeing along the way. Passengers will fly from Newark to San Francisco by United, to Hong Kong by Pan American, to Athens by Britain's Imperial Airways, to Milan by Italy's Ala Littoria and Avio Linee Italiane, to Frankfurt by Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.), to Lakehurst, N. J. on the Hindenburg, back to Newark...