Word: hongkong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight Japan. Most such proclamations were of course mere bluff, but the world listened to Poet-General Tsai Ting-kai, famed for the glorious resistance of his 19th Route Army to Japan's attack on Shanghai (TIME, Feb.1). Telegraphed General Tsai, who happened to be in British Hongkong 1,600 mi. from Shanhaikwan last week: "If Chang Hsueh-liang has no intention of resisting I will take the19th Route Army to North China...
...Brothers starts the cycles that other Hollywood companies finish, it is generally conceded that Warner's strong point lies in selecting stories. One Way Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before...
...member of the Imperial Family, exalted and unassailable, Alexander in his youth went first to a particularly expensive U. S. daughter of joy in Hongkong. Later he "went native" in Japan, an incident which he relates with a flourish en passan, not forgetting to add that "elder [Japanese] persons" often stopped him in the street to inquire whether his "wife" was giving satisfaction. He says that His Majesty the Empress of Japan and His Majesty the Emperor, "Son of Heaven bestowed their mirthful benediction at Court Banquet upon his sowing of wild oats. They laughed, shrieked...
...told Miss Marlowe, "after you tell me your name and nationality." These facts he entered in a notebook. Miss Marlowe went?from Shanghai to Hongkong (British). Naturally all the Consuls General at Shanghai protested to the Japanese Consul General but in the capitals of the Great Power, there was exhibited none of that spirit which the late Theodore Roosevelt, the late Georges Clemenceau or Queen Victoria used to exhibit when one of their nationals was set upon abroad...
...province of Yunnan, have been lukewarm in their protests to Tokyo. But the actions of Admiral Shiosawa changed all that. In London King-Emperor George V presided at a special cabinet meeting. Two British cruisers were sent racing to Shanghai from Singapore. Artillery and infantry were ordered up from Hongkong. French troops barricaded their concession against Japan. An Italian destroyer landed 150 marines. Even Portugal did her bit. She owns the little peninsula and famed gambling city of Macao in China. With her boilers wheezing bravely the 36-year-old Portuguese cruiser Adamastor made her way out of Macao. Shanghai...