Word: kowloon
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...maneuvering Spitfires were not the only show of strength which Great Britain had staged to impress China's Communists, whose armies had swept up to Hong Kong's borders. Across the harbor from Hong Kong island, on the flinty, weatherworn mountain of South China's Kowloon peninsula (which the British rule under a 99-year lease), men of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the King's Own Scottish Borderers were training to the peak of battle efficiency. Said a brisk regimental commander: "We know our enemy, and we are ready...
...graduate of Canton's Union Theological College, she had been attached to Kowloon's Anglican Church, whose congregation is composed mainly of educated, professional Chinese. After the Japanese captured Kowloon, no Anglican priest could visit the parish to administer the sacraments. Deaconess Lei reportedly escaped through the Japanese lines, reached Bishop Hall. Defying all canon and precedent, he ordained her, sent her back to Kowloon as its priest...
...such description could apply to the work of the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force last week. In three raids, Mitchell bombers with a fighter cover of Warhawks bombed the Kowloon docks, across the bay from Hong Kong, destroyed an estimated 25,000 tons of Jap shipping. In all raids during this period against Jap-held China bases, U.S. planes shot down at least 78 Jap planes, lost only eight...
...more than the U.S., which paddled a poor second with 29. One of the breaststroke stars on the Jap team was a crop-haired lad named Reizo Koike. The Japanese announced last week that Reizo Koike had trained a school of swimmers who churned across the narrow waterway between Kowloon and Hong Kong, located British mines, exploded them with rifles, made possible crossings by Japanese troopships...
...Japanese had captured Kowloon, Hong Kong's mainland center, after fierce air and land assaults. Japanese troops swarmed onto the island of Hong Kong itself. The defenders simply kept fighting, in spite of the odds. Chinese troops sniped at the Japanese rear on the mainland, near Pingshan and Shum-chun, but hardly hoped to halt the attack...