Word: hongkew
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...Peking (which has still not recognized Britain), Jardine's took inconspicuous ads in the Hong Kong papers stating that it has "ceased to act as general managers" of Ewo (Happy Harmony) Cotton Mills. Jardine's hoped also to withdraw from Ewo Breweries and from the big Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Shareholders would get little for the privilege of withdrawing their managers, except cessation of paying tribute for them. So ended trading in China of the firm with the biggest British investment east of Suez...
...food is precious. Housing is short. Shanghai's 200,000 Jewish refugees are still in the Hongkew quarter and a few have to live in refugee camps. Of all Shanghailanders, Jews face the most uncertain future. They dream of America in the same way as devout Americans dream of paradise...
...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...
...unhappiest of those who were waiting for bombs in London last week was little Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu. One reason he was unhappy was because he knew all about bombs. On the morning of April 29, 1932, an insurgent Korean rushed a grandstand in Shanghai's Hongkew Park, where Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday, and threw a "thermos bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities...
...would be the next thing to getting control of the Settlement) and the Settlement's Municipal Council wants to help keep order in outlying areas. Last week the Municipal Council won a slight concession. An agreement was signed permitting Settlement police to "help" patrol part of Japanese-controlled Hongkew, which is technically part of the Settlement anyhow. Still wide open were the Badlands...