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Hong Kong's warehouses were soon piled high with opium, and some 80 clipper ships smuggled the drug to Chinese dealers along the 4,000-mile coast of the mainland. Reckless men poured in from every land. When the potent Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. was founded in 1864, it was backed by 14 different firms-British, American, German, Indian, Turkish, Danish-and its first manager was a Frenchman. A British visitor warned that "anyone compelled to come by duty to Hong Kong should have a stout heart and a lively trust in the mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: The Fragrant Harbor | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...last, after 9^ months of this, two Red guards shoved him across the border at Hongkong, the last Methodist missionary to leave China (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missionary Who Lied | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Cecil T. F. B. Lyen--In office of U.S. High Commission in Berlin, Germany. Has been at posts in Havana, Hongkong, Tokyo, Peking, Santiago, Cairo, Warsaw, and Berlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '27 Class Counts Judge, Diplomats, Missionaries | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

Into Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai, the ship nosed her way. Port officials went aboard, came off marveling. By now only a small group of men were trying to maintain discipline. One worried boy moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Cruise of the Ada Rehan | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Chungking the U.S. Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jeep Girls | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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