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Britain's territorial integrity in Hong Kong would not be worth a bosun's whistle if Japan really attacked the possession. Last week's maneuver, though its announced purpose (like that of the occupation of Canton in October 1938) was to cut the flow of supplies into Free China, was obviously also intended as a threat to Hong Kong. The Japanese military warned British authorities 48 hours beforehand of the intended move, and brought supplies, indicating a long stay...
...Canton area, so near Hong Kong as to be a perfect base for attack, the Japanese are estimated to have 40,000 troops-as compared to an estimated 10,000 which Britain has based at Hong Kong. The odds are so long against them that the British command has already decided to abandon the Crown Colony in the event of a showdown. British commercial interests-such as the $50,000,000 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp.-and the private property of the 16,000-odd British residents of Hong Kong are not deemed to be worth fighting losing battles...
China's onetime Premier Wang Ching-wei, who is hourly expected to bob up as head of a super-puppet government in Nanking, broadcast an appeal from Japanese-held Canton. He begged South China to break with the Central Government, make peace (under himself) with Japan. Wang sniped at his old rival Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose tremendous popularity, along with Wang's lack of it, has undoubtedly been the main incentive for the would-be-puppet's campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times...
Last year W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, talenty, touted young English poets and amateur leftists, went to China to see what all the shooting was about. First peep at Canton's muddy West River reminded the boys of the Severn. Next peep showed them the crews of U.S. and British gunboats playing football ("hairy, meat-pink men with powerful buttocks...
...Twenty old U. S. residents of China released in Shanghai a survey of conditions in the nine Japanese-occupied Chinese cities of Nanking, Kaifeng, Suchow, Chinkiang, Canton, Soochow, Hangchow, Hankow and Tsinan. The cities' pre-war combined population of 5,800,000 had shrunk, they said, to 2,400,000. The Chinese puppet administrations were "weak, inefficient and corrupt," business was depressed, there was widespread unemployment, prostitution was rampant and narcotics were sold openly under Japanese auspices. Their conclusion: "The whole former trend of constructive development has been shattered, and devastation, chaos and oppression brought in a regime which...