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...west, Major General L. Claire Chennault's Liberators smashed at Japanese shipping on the Whangpoo near Shanghai. Northeast of the Philippines the Volcano Islands, halfway between the southern Marianas and Tokyo, were raided by Major General Willis Hale's Liberators from new bases on Saipan. Hale's Seventh Air Force heavies also smashed at the Bonins, still closer to Tokyo. From the north Aleutian-based bombers attacked the Kurils...
Shanghai is two cities: one a sprawling, sinful Oriental beehive of nearly 3,500,000 Chinese, the other the 60,000 foreigners living along the Whangpoo in the snug, smug plutocracy of the International Settlement and the more raffish French Concession. Since the Japanese took over the Chinese city in 1937, the Settlement has been an island in a sea of intrigue and guerrilla warfare. Round it have prowled gunmen, tough, graft-hungry Japanese soldiers, the gangster bravos and police of the puppet Nanking Government...
...Municipal Council of the International Settlement of Shanghai was a government as close to a plutocracy as the world has ever seen. For 96 years the Council ran the big city on the Whangpoo mud flats for the especial benefit of a tiny group of the city's biggest Occidental taxpayers, the taipans. heads of the biggest business houses in the Settlement. Last week, after staving off the determined Japanese since 1932, the International Settlement was under Japanese rule...
...Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city badlands in the world. Kidnappings, bombings, murders are the small change of its life, and a holdup man can rent a gun from a policeman for $2.50. This Shanghai has its own polyglot dynasty of gangsters, gamblers, pimps, racketeers...
Last week may have marked the beginning of the end of one of the strangest cities in the world: Shanghai. At the close of the Opium War, in 1842, Great Britain took title to some unattractive mud flats between Soochow Creek and the Whangpoo River near the mouth of the 3,200-mile-long Yangtze. On those flats a metropolis spawned, a city not of one nation but of the world, where British taipans played polo in the long afternoons, where tough, good-humored American businessmen talked baseball, poker and politics, where short French soldiers laughed with not quite proper...