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...night of May 13, 1953, a British revenue officer in Hong Kong, watching the midnight sailing of the Hong Kong-Macao ferry, spotted a man swimming in the dark water alongside the ferry's hull...
...endless ferryboat ride" was over. Last week, after 296 round trips, Michael Patrick O'Brien, the "stateless Irishman" who had been forced to ride the Hong Kong-Macao ferry continuously since Sept. 18, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.), was whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where...
...them, the Communists have made smuggling operations in this area comparatively secure. Red gunboats constantly patrol the Pearl River estuary, and the oldtime speculator who ran the blockades with mixed cargoes has disappeared. The Communists ask for and get only strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks up to Whampoa...
Expensive Trade. Lap Sap Mei and Macao are an enticement to the thousands of desperately poor junk people in Hong Kong who are ready to risk their lives to earn a few hundred dollars running contraband. Under U.N. pressure, British authorities have stepped up their efforts to enforce the embargo...
...scrap iron disguised as ballast, 82 tons of asphalt passing as dirty, but legal, coal tar. The British concede that about 200 tons of merchandise - about 1,000th of Hong Kong's intake-gets across to the Communists every week. Even with what goes in to Macao and Lap Sap Mei, it is not enough for the building of industrial China. Only peace and a resumption of normal trade would do that...