Word: macao
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...special cabinet meeting. Two British cruisers were sent racing to Shanghai from Singapore. Artillery and infantry were ordered up from Hongkong. French troops barricaded their concession against Japan. An Italian destroyer landed 150 marines. Even Portugal did her bit. She owns the little peninsula and famed gambling city of Macao in China. With her boilers wheezing bravely the 36-year-old Portuguese cruiser Adamastor made her way out of Macao. Shanghai bound...
...became acquainted with an Englishman and a Scotchman, and started with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...
...hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane was missing. Companions in another plane had been confounded crossing the turbulent air-passages of hot Arabia, had descended in a sandstorm, been rescued after exposure to fierce hunger and thirst...
...Major Sarmento De Beires and two other Portuguese officers who flew from Lisbon to Macao (China), wrecking one plane, replacing it and landing the other in a cemetery whence they could not take off and where the machine was dismantled...