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...Line (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). These the white-bearded merchant Captain Robert (''Robbie") Dollar and his son, R. Stanley Dollar, put to work in a unique round-the-world one-way service. One sails every fortnight from each of the following ports in circuit: San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston, New York, Havana, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and around again. They carry about 100 passengers who are permitted stopovers. These globe-girdlers...
...Story. In Hongkong, one afternoon, a door-knob turned. The door did not open. But the turning of the knob alarmed two people who were getting dressed in the shelter of the door to which the knob was affixed. Could it have been Walter? Kitty did not think so. Her companion, an athletic adulterer of 40, left her. Kitty sat down to wait for Bacteriologist Walter Fane who, at this point, had been a cuckold for about a year...
...went back to Hongkong, confronted Townsend, told him, one af- ternoon, what an ass she thought he was. He responded by kissing her. Her bones turned to water. "It's no use," she thought afterwards, "I am a slut...
...Geneva, Opium Week at the Palace of the League of Nations opened auspiciously with an agreement between Britain and Japan whereby Britain now consents to recognize Japan's opium import certificates (TIME, Nov. 24) when the drug is transshipped at Hongkong...
...over this question that the disagreement arose. A consul at Hongkong refused a bill of health to a liquor-bearing ship. Governor General Wood protested, and finally asked the War Department to bid the State Department modify its instructions to consuls, inasmuch as the Volstead Act did not apply to the Philippines. The State Department refused on the ground that its instructions were based on the Constitution...