Word: honge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life line not only as the chief munitions route but also as a means of exporting tea. Only recently have the Japanese armies approached the tea fields of China. Hankow has become the chief tea trading centre of China and thanks to the railway's continued operation Hong Kong has replaced Shanghai as chief tea port. Tea exports from China last year increased by 4% over 1936, amounted to 406,572 quintals (89,632,863 pounds), valued at over $30,000,000. This year the Soviet Union has contracted to buy $15,000,000 worth. Already shipped to Hong...
...morning last week, Pilot Hugh L. Woods of McCracken, Kans. raised a big Douglas transport plane off the airfield at Hong Kong. He had 13 Chinese passengers, including two women, a young child and a baby. Half-hour later, as the liner scudded over swampy Chinese delta lands, eleven Japanese planes came tearing in from the direction of the Ladrone Islands, and Pilot Woods promptly ducked into a cloud. When he reached the end of it, five Japanese planes were on his tail, power diving at the Douglas to force it down. "Japanese planes chasing us," radioed Pilot Woods, then...
...reason for the attack was soon deduced. Dr. Sun Fo, son of the late great Chinese Revolutionist Sun Yatsen, had recently visited Russia and toured European capitals seeking aid for the Chinese Government. Arriving in Hong Kong, he and his party booked passage with China National Aviation Corp. from Hong Kong to Chungking, China's temporary capital. Japanese spies evidently informed the Japanese Air Force that an easy job of assassination could be carried...
...they prowled about Canton streets strewn with decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down the Pearl River...
...miles northeast of the Paracels and hard off the coast of China. Japanese occupation of either Hainan or the Paracels would place Japan within easy attacking distance of Indo-China, more important, would place her astride Britain's vital sea route between her strongly fortified colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore...