Word: honge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land planes with British markings flew over Japanese positions last week. The British could offer no explanation, saying there were no British land planes nearer than Hong Kong. Japanese resentment, ignited fortnight ago when the British permitted 377 Chinese soldiers to escape to the British lines (TIME, Nov. 8), was at snapping point...
Military experts 24 hours later, after the fighting had guttered out, admitted that this has been International Shanghai's most terrible taste of war, although negligible in military results. Eight hundred Shanghai residents who had fled to Hong Kong during the past two months took ship there last week to sail back to Shanghai, figured they would rather risk Death and know the worst than remain stretched on the wrack of worrying about their Shanghai property...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
...Chinese bombers was preparing to make a desperate effort to break Japan's blockade of her coast. Still another fleet of twelve Chinese bombers formed themselves into a ''suicide squad" sworn to destroy the recently established Japanese naval base at Pratus Shoals, 200 mi. southeast of Hong Kong. Each pilot, gunner and observer was insured for $10,000, the policies payable to the flyers' families. Off to an unknown base in southern China they flew. By week's end no word of their mission had been received...
...around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last lap of her 19,000-mile journey to Hong Kong. She was never seen again...