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Show Hongkong's Swift Growth. Hongkong, when occupied by the British in 1841, was just a barren island, is-land, and the part of the peninsula opposite, known as Kowloon, merely sand and marshland. The inhabitants were fishermen or pirates, or both. Today Hongkong with its thriving city of Victoria, holds a population of about 1,000.000. In 40 years the -revenue and expenditures of Hongkong and its suburbs have increased twenty-fold. One of its difficulties is the housing question. Standardized houses with from four to six rooms are being be-ing erected at a cost of $4,000 to $0,-500. $0,-500. Hongkong's harbor has been so much Improved that it now ranks as one of the greatest ports In the world. |