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...Claws. The British War Office announced that it would have 20,000 British troops in China by the end of February. Ten thousand picked infantrymen, including a battalion of the crack Coldstream Guards, embarked at London last week for China, and 450 Punjabis from British India were rushed from Hongkong to Shanghai...
Foochow. Nationalist soldiers looted the mission quarter of Foochow, a sizable southern sea port, abducted hundreds of Chinese orphan girls cared for by the missionaries, and forced the Spanish Bishop Aguirre to flee by sea to Hongkong. British and Y, M. C. A. missions were also looted...
...Feng's Christian Army, never with their willing support. In Canton, during my three weeks' visit, things were very different. Parades, mass-meetings, continual rounds of demonstration revealed the interest of the city population in the approaching expedition against the North. Members of the labor unions and the Hongkong strikers volunteered for service with the army. The merchants and people of Canton had just over-subscribed a $5,000,000 loan to the Nationalist Government without security other than the word of the officials. In the North soldiers have to be impressed for service and loans are obtained only...
...Japanese yen continued last week its recent upward movement (TIME, March 1). As Chinese merchants invested heavily in yen at Shanghai and Hongkong, Japanese bankers watched the quotations creep up and up at Tokyo. Before the week closed, parch-ment-skinned board-boys 'chalked up a weird symbol meaning "One yen equals 47.312c today"-the nearest approach to parity (49.85c) since...
Miscellaneous. Ocean-breaking rocks over which the national anthem is annually sung, include Wake Island (one square mile) directly en route from Hawaii to Hongkong, and the Midway Islands, many leagues north of Hawaii...