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...British troops were slowly pressed by Japanese forces, CNAC established an emergency service from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the lee of the Kowloon hills (see cut, p. 18), While bombs and artillery shells rained down on the field, U.S. and Chinese pilots loaded Daddy Kung, Madame Sun, Banker Chen and 272 other passengers into shuttling planes, crossed the Japanese lines, set them down safely 200 miles inland. By the time the airport became too hot, they had rescued the entire staff of the air company and were ready to carry on from new headquarters...
Rain and bombs pelted the island of Hong Kong, from whose peak this picture was taken. Hong Kong (lower foreground) and Kowloon (across the water) are the ragged end of the thin red line of Empire. From their Victorian mansions on the hillside, Britons looked out, as their predecessors had for 100 years, on the red and grey hills in the distance beyond which lies China, and on the masts of the myriad ships that make Hong Kong the sixth greatest port on earth...
...might be coming over the weather-worn humps on the horizon to raise the Japanese siege. Striking from behind the ridge of hills where for three years they had lined the colony's border, Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese presented the British with an ultimatum to surrender. The British refused. At week's end the Japanese announced the opening of an all-out attack on the island fortress itself...
Hong Kong's defenses are passing fair: minefields, anti-aircraft guns, gun batteries (some 12-inchers, some said to be 18-inchers) cut into the hills' rocks, British, Canadian, Indian and native troops. The colony's only good airfield is on the Kowloon side, was seized by the Japanese. Hong Kong's defenders always planned to hold until relief could reach them from Singapore. But this citadel, too, was under attack, for its existence...
Artillery roared one day last week around the mud-banks that embrace Kowloon Bay, in answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral...