'As a result of the sudden disruption of communications with the interior, considerable amounts of Chinese war' materials have been stranded here.
It is believed such shipments will be sent to Indo-China for transportation {to south-west China, Fifteen thousand British and American motor trucks [consigned for delivery to the Chinese Government were stranded here by the Japanese occupation of. the Kowloon railway. Aeroplanes, tanks, guns and munitions also were waiting hhere for shipment to Hankow.
Hongkong was stunned today by the rapidity of the Japanese march across 130 miles of hostile Chinese territory to Canton within nine days, after the Japanese landing at Bias Bay. The city apparently will oxperience the same type of sudden depression which hit Shanghat after: ]Japanese occupation of Chinese areas [surrounding Shanghai's foreign areas, Hongkong had profited greatly during the past year at Shanghai's expense, since most shipping which Ginarily would have entered China through Shanghai was diverted to, Hongkong. The heavy influx of refugees into Hongkong promoted an Prosperous real estate boom, It was. Believed landlords would continue to, profit here, however, because wealthy' Chinese refugees probably. will. re-/main here indefinitely—United Press.
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