Word: hongkongers
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...Hongkong, a Chinese passenger jumped off a street car, leaving behind him a shrieking bomb, especially designed to put an end to the existence of a strikebreaking driver. He fled. So did the passengers. The bomb exploded. The car blew up. One passenger was injured...
...first copy of TIME that I received, on arrival at Seattle, contained the statement (July 6, Page 11, col. 1) that the shooting at Shameen, Canton, had been done by "angry students and workmen." As I had left Canton the Saturday before the shooting, and was in Hongkong at the time, I am in a position to know that your statement was (unintentionally) misleading. I have talked with an eye-witness from the Shameen side and have heard fully the Chinese point of view from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting...
Next morning, Aunt Teresa says she is haunted by Uncle Lucy's spectre, gibbering in her lingerie. She orders an immediate departure. Sylvia's husband cannot go, so is left behind. The S. S. Rhinoceros puffs to England with all the polyglots, via Hongkong, Singapore, Ceylon, Aden, Egypt, Gibraltar. Georges, secretly honeymooning with Sylvia, is more satisfied than ever to leave his life and love in the hands of Fate and Aunt Teresa...
...Hongkong. Up to the past week, British-governed Hongkong remained orderly; but, with the conclusion of the Kuo Min-tang-Yünnanese battle, agitators calling themselves the "Dare to Die Corps" (the name of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's irregulars, who successfully fomented the rebellion against the Son of Heaven) forced the Hongkong Chinese to strike. Absolute quiet was maintained...
...China, the way leads to Pekin, Nankau Pass, the Old Wall of China, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. Besides wild fowl shooting, there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will...