Word: hong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only bombed Chinese villages in Manchuria but ground-strafed a train on which, in his private car, rode indignant General Man ager J. G. Thomson of the Peiping-Mukden Railway, a British subject. Japanese troops if withdrawing at all from Manchuria were withdrawing last week very slowly. In British Hong Kong, Chinese mobs rushed the Japanese quarter, were restrained only by a bayonet charge of the Scotch Highlanders, kilts aflutter...
...Official Chinese name for Equitable Eastern Banking Corp., Chase's big unit, is "Dah Tins Ning Hong," or "The Big Silver Bank Known Around the World...
...Beanlands, suddenly dowered by widowhood with money and a chance to gesture, thought it would be romantic to make a non-stop flight from England to Hong-Kong. Adventurer Wilmot Shap, eyeing her fortune, encouraged her, went along as navigator, hoped the trip would end in a wedding. Pilot Jimmy Wreaks, scarred and one-eyed from crashes, went because he was paid to fly the ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing...