(Continued from Page 474.) number of the garrison were also seduced, so that there was an enemy within the gates as well as a foo The Lesson for Shanghai The lesson for chose charged with the defence of Shanghai is an obvious one. Forewarned should: be forearmed. The elements that planned the coup in Canton are as strong in our midst as in the city that has been stricken. They' are busily using the same tactics and working from the same-base as int [Canton. A fow hours before tha blow fell Canton was apparently more sreure and peaceful than Shanghai is now, but in an hour's time it was in the hands of the Communists, the flames of burning buildings were reddening the niorn= ing sky and the screams of the stricken people rending the heavens. The authorities in Canton had better sources of information regarding the movements of their enemies than we have; yet they were taken unawares. If we be wise we shall earn the person and if we be scorn ful we shall have ourselves to blame for the fate that will surely overs take us.
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