Fox (DLG 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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Our relief, USS STERETT CDLG-312 and equipment. . A And We were off, the beginning of the end. Captain Nice and his Avengers. i n We transferred personnel giri i' friii X W ' - W4 2 S ,471 7 FUI? 'rx- l 1 if ,X A 4 bf SWK 574115 gf J' ,fir Q ' ,A 5 Q f 2,,,f f,wff1'X',ff ,,f,4fws' ,w -Q iff xQ'ff'fWXf,.,7XwWXQfXjZfX XQQA XWXQXZQZ r 'e Our old friends said good bye .... Gourlie at the ' ' bat. Q 5 , X

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HW? if tofu A British Crown Colony off the Kwangtung coast of Southern China, comprising the island oi Hong Kong and adjacent islets, Kowloon peninsula and Stonecutters fNgon Shun Chaul and the leased New Territories on the mainland. The total area of the colony is 398.25 square miles, of which Hong Kong Island is 29 square miles. The earliest peoples in Hong Kong are thought to have come from North China on their way to Borneo, the Philippinesand Formosa in the second millennium B.C. The Cantonese appear to have begun to settle in the area about AD 500, later came the Hakka, and by the mid 17th century, the Hoklo, who main- tained a reputation as pirates. Hong Kong was also a scene of the last strugglers of the dying Ming dynasty, about 1650 AD. In 1931, the population of Hong Kong was 850,000 people. By 1961, the population had increased to 3,128,500 The daily wage in Hong Kongin 1961 was CHK 81-U.S. 80.17 1122: skilled workmen HK 8105 unskilled HK 83.50 tc HK 87.50. A bonus of one month's wages is normally paid at Chinese New Yeaf- Q e We arrive at Hong Kong. A V Mooring the FOX wasnot only hard to,do, but One of the more picturesque. boats of the Orient. hard fo belleve' . I l H0115 Kong 62 Kowloon 1 , .l..l