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...most timid of travelers not fear to visit any Chinese place on the itinerary of a major steamship line or world cruise. (Safest of all Chinese places are the International Quarter at Shanghai guarded by white police, Peiping where U. S. Marines are quartered, and the British part of Hongkong...
...Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate for Russia's Port and Germany's Tsingtao...
Appointed. Sir William Peel, 55, career administrator and adviser since 1897 in British Malaya (Penang, Singapore, Kedah, etc.); to be Governor of Hongkong, important British naval station and trade mart in the Orient (average annual trade $500,000,000). Sir William succeeds to the post and salary ($30,000) of Sir Cecil Clementi, promoted Governor of the Straits Settlements...
China was represented by two speakers, one of them a graduate of Harvard. They were: V. K. Kwong '29, Hongkong, China; and S. L. Chang, Swatow, China, W. E. Esber '31, and J. M. Swigert '30 spoke for the University. The chairman of the program was professor of Government, A. N. Holcombe...
...Incentive. Col. W. E. Easterwood Jr., of Dallas, Tex., renewed his 1927 offer of $25,000 for the first flight from Hongkong, China to Dallas last week. He hoped that James Drummond Dole, Hawaiian pineapple sponsor of the Oakland, Cal. to Honolulu race in 1927, would add another $25,000 for the race. It involves stops at Tokyo, Honolulu and on the Pacific Coast...