Word: macao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kong's profitable traffic with Red China is now but a sixth of what it was last December. But that still does not close China's door to the West. The trade has spread across the wide Pearl River mouth to the ancient, gaudy Portuguese colony of Macao (pop. 400,000). Standing on a peninsula and two tiny islands, Macao (total area: 6 sq. mi.) is a place addicted to gold smuggling, with customs officers who look the other way and businessmen who will deal with anybody. It was at Macao, four centuries ago, that white...
Muddy Pearl. Junks and sloops were anchored offshore. A Japanese trawler arrived from U.S.-occupied Okinawa, carrying oil. Macao's Wharf No. 31, an oil pumping dock, was busy day & night. British, Danish and Panamanian freighters, sometimes pausing to lighten their load at Macao, steamed upstream to Whampoa, the port of Canton, through a muddy Pearl River channel which the busy Red Chinese recently deepened. Freighters on the Pearl last week were laden with steel rails, zinc plate, asphalt, Indonesian rubber, Pakistan cotton, American trucks, steel piping, tubing. To China's Reds, Macao and Whampoa are not ideal...
Gold Net. The man behind Macao's prosperity is a shrewd, wiry Portuguese-Dutch-Malay named Pedro J. Lobo, who runs Asia's largest gold market in Macao and in fact runs Macao also. Lobo lives well, and in his spare time composes music (including an operetta called Cruel Separation). Lobo's title is economic director of the colony. On each ounce of gold, most of which arrives on Catalina flying boats owned by Lobo, he levies two taxes: an official one of 35? for the Macao treasury, another of $2.10 for himself. This has netted Lobo...
...Liberal government can quickly smother discussion of any embarrassing subject. That seemed to be the Liberal strategy last week when the Tory opposition again raised the question of the Ming Sung Industrial Co. Flying the Canadian flag, Ming Sung's five ships sail regularly from Hong Kong and Macao to Communist China, despite Canada's support of the United Nations' strategic embargo against the Chinese Reds...
Major General George Pearkes, the Tories' military critic, read a telegram from the China Officers Guild at Hong Kong reporting that the Canadian-registered, Chinese-manned Ming Sung ships were loading war materials for Red China at Macao. Tory Leader George Drew demanded that the Canadian registry for the ships be withdrawn. Said Drew: "These ships . . . assist the enemy at a time when that enemy is sending its troops to fight our troops in Korea...