From left: John Marden, of Wheelock, Marden and Co., shipping tycoon Pao Yue-kong Pao, Tormod Rafgard and William W Y Lee, of World-Wide Shipping, at the Hong Kong Club, in 1979. Photo: SCMP
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Colonial Hong Kong’s ‘creative’ approach to lending to ex-China shipowners
While tycoons cried racism, their ships were breaking the UN embargo on trading with China – and their mainland families were under threat
From left: John Marden, of Wheelock, Marden and Co., shipping tycoon Pao Yue-kong Pao, Tormod Rafgard and William W Y Lee, of World-Wide Shipping, at the Hong Kong Club, in 1979. Photo: SCMP
British officers including Cyril Wild (left, carrying the white flag) arrive to surrender Singapore to the Japanese on February 15, 1942.
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Spies of Stonecutters Island: the eccentric boffins who ran Hong Kong’s pre-war listening post
Japanese linguist Cyril Wild and Anglo-Irish poet and translator Arthur Cooper helped monitor signal traffic throughout the Pacific from Allied wireless facilities in Hong Kong and Singapore
British officers including Cyril Wild (left, carrying the white flag) arrive to surrender Singapore to the Japanese on February 15, 1942.