Were Kwangtung to depend only on the regulars for defending its territory, its defence would be insecure indeed, for her best soldiers, and the vast majority of them, are in the north. Notwithstanding, she will have a vast army in the field when the Japanese do come. How these men, absolutely untried, few of whom have ever faced rifle-fire, will stand up against a veteran army is something else. Sut the draft has taken too. as is said police will be pushed into the front line, and the chang ting, or home-guardsmen, will take up police duties. cement roofs, and there is no excuse for anybody being on the streets when planes fly over. Notwithstanding, it is so long since any place in Canton has been an objective that people have grown careless. Stores keep open, most persons walk about the streets with complete abandon, even after the second warning has sounded, and it will take another strafing to make the populace as cautious as it naturally should be.
Well-constructed hostelries continue in their popularity, and they are filled to overflow. The official class forms a large part of the permanent residents of these first-class hotels. On several of these buildings towering over the majority of structures, anti-aircraft guns have been mounted, and the writer has not enjoyed his stay in them during air raids, Gradually the Provincial Government had been completing a net-work of telephone wires to put all county seats on trunk-lines running out of Canton. Working against time, it has stopped stringing wires and putting up poles, and has bought wireless OF
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