Word: hongkong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Harvey Rogers of Yale reached Singapore in the course of a world junket. Four months ago President Roosevelt sent this snaggle-toothed Brain Truster out to gather all possible facts about silver in the Orient. Professor Rogers had talked long and solemnly with Chinese bankers in Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong, had toured the Yangtze Valley, had written meaty reports back to the U. S. Treasury...
...Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...
...long as Mr. Hu continued to fulminate, safe behind his Hongkong gratings, the Nanking Government of Generalissimo Chiang, potent chiefly in Central China, despaired of re-establishing its authority in the South. Last week the great haggle ended in a joyous announcement by Nanking Government officials. They had paid Mr. Hu some $200,000, they said, and he has agreed to leave China under pretext of "a detailed inspection tour of European and other countries...
...emigrants to the U. S. per year. To grant immigration visas, a U. S. vice consul was appointed to Manila just as if it were any other foreign port. Named to the post was Henry B. Day (Yale '27) who until last week was Vice Consul in Hongkong...
...Hongkong arrived 50 Tibetan Lamas, on their way to Nanking bearing gifts and good news to the pious little Panchen Lama who was ousted in 1924 as Tibet's spiritual ruler. The paunchy Panchen Lama took hope of resuming his old position last December when Death came to Tibet's temporal ruler, the devious Dalai Lama (TIME, Jan. 1, et seq.). He dispatched the 50 Lamas to Lhasa to feel out the situation. Last week they reported all was well. Said the Ahchien Lama, leader of the party: "The people of Tibet are eager for his return...