China.
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instruction in this activity is just as
necessary as ever so far as the Pacific is
concerned.
I am very much afraid that Chiang
Kai-shek will have to 'cave in'.
If so,
we here can look forward very soon to a
hostile Canton, always an unpleasant
neighbour.
Hong Kong.
There is a good deal of pro-Wang
Ching-wei feeling here. It is due, I
think, partly to war-weariness; partly
to the belief that Chiang Kai-shek is
losing and the wish to save what they can
from the wreck; partly to fear that the
Japanese may bomb this place, but might
refrain if the Wang Ching-wei party could
get the upper-hand here. But the whole
political atmosphere is more nebulous than
usual and any comment on it is necessarily
based largely on guessing.
Evacuation.
Though there is a lot of soreness on
various points in this connection the issue
is moribund. I was approached soon after
arrival by the Husbands Association with a
request that I would allow return at
owner's risk', so to say and I gave a flat
I have not had
though sympathetic refusal.
any 'comeback' on that.