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...Doihara, in his role of the Japanese Army's diplomatic Shanghai Lily, matched wits last week with Hongkong Hu. It is Mr. Hu Han-min's distinction that he was the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Chief Secretary and that today his influence in Canton is worth a $200,000 bribe proffered him last year by the Chinese Government (TIME, July 23). It would be cheaper to jail or exterminate Mr. Hu, but he is careful to live in British Hongkong, with strapping Sikh police posted day and night before his strongly built house...
...Canton and its clique of South Chinese generals can be sold, Hongkong Hu is the man to make the sale, discreetly. Last week he received General Doihara behind his iron gratings, then puffed an impressive smoke screen of anti-Japanese fulminations...
...bluster preceding Hongkong Hu's "if" could be discounted. What came after was of vast importance. It implied that Canton, which for four years has baited the Chinese Government at Nanking with charges of "treachery to China," charges of "supineness toward Japan," may now be ready to yield to the blandishments of Tokyo and its Shanghai Lily. Such a development, in which monstrous Japanese bribes would play an inevitable role, may well prove for China the turning point in her 20th Century history, a turning toward Asia for Asiatics with Japan at the controls...
...Canton, because it is the farthest metropolis on the China coast from Japan and therefore least apt to be attacked, has been loudly, blatantly anti-Japanese. If even Canton is wavering, Japanese diplomacy could chalk up a major victory last week in Nanking, the "Capital of China" which strongly rules Central China, preponderates in the North and makes noises intended to sound like rule in the South...
...Canton, China, the local fire department scheduled an exhibition leap from a burning three-story platform. With 10,000 spectators watching, two Chinese firemen climbed to the top. Someone set fire to the gasoline-soaked frame before the life net was ready. When the flames reached the top, the two firemen jumped to their death...