Word: hongkonger
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Pith-helmeted Britishers, suckled on the strong wine of an imperial tradition, reared to carry a white man's burden without stooping, made rendezvous at their Hongkong clubs, waited the word of command. A cruiser, a team of gunboats, coaled up in the harbor...
...Chamberlain forgotten that Hongkong-"place of the sweet lagoon"-was the perfect sapphire in Queen Victoria's crown? Where else did such a roadstead curve so lustrously about the skirts of such island hills? This island, 29 square miles, had been England's since 1842, her Pacific Gibraltar, her Pillar of Hercules between the Torrid and the Temperate Zones, her trademark on the map of China...
...Chamberlain fully realize that the hysterical semi-Bolshevik Government of Southern China, centring at Canton (on the mainland, 75 miles from Hongkong) had banned all British vessels from its waters, that the docks of Hongkong were completely tied up by a sympathetic strike...
...hands, but last week it went a bit too far according to British and Japanese notions. It issued a manifesto denying British and Japanese ships the use of certain ports including Canton; it allowed ships of other nations to visit those ports provided they did not call at Hongkong (British enclave); it provided for inspection of foreign vessels visiting ports by pickets of the Anti-Imperialist Union...
...course this action is contrary to the terms of British treaties with China. It is very serious for Hongkong which is reported to be losing $1,000,000 a day by the boycott. The British and Japanese can protest to Peking, and Peking can give orders to Canton -and Canton will go on doing as it pleases. The anti-foreign sentiment in Canton, led by Soviet agitators, gives the British and Japanese the choice of direct action (i.e. using force) or nothing...