Word: honge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in the French Concession at Shanghai two Chinese disguised as orange peddlers assassinated one of China's leading businessmen and her leading Christian philanthropist. Joseph Lo Pa-hong, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Papal Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest...
...nephew by marriage to the Man & Wife of the Year (see p. 12), became last week the first prominent Chinese Government official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME, Nov. 29). The Reds had not yet asked...
...miles across the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, and when P. A. A. puts passenger planes on the Auckland run, passengers will be able to fly on regular schedules from New York to London via the Antipodes-a variation of the present possible route via Hong Kong...
...N.A.M. chairman is a Yaleman with both Sheffield and academic degrees, having graduated from "Sheff" in the Class of 1897 and returning for an A.B. the following year. After law school he joined his father-by special dispensation-for a cruise on the old U.S.S. Kentucky from Manhattan to Hong Kong, dining on the way with the Sultan of Turkey. Back in Manhattan in 1901, Mr. Chester went from law to business and back again to law, and then in 1917 he shut up shop and went to Plattsburg to earn a commission as an infantry major...
Just inside the neutral Settlement, atop an exposed tower, the London Daily Telegraph's, ace Correspondent Philip Pembroke Stephens, who recently flew from London to Hong Kong to cover the war, watched the capture of Shanghai with seven other whites. In the ensuing lull some 20 minutes later a U. S. patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets...