What alarms the people here is that the Japanese threat comes from Shumehun, formerly Chinese territory, from which no menace was expected as long as it was under Chinese control. The defence of Hongkong Is concentrated on the strategic approaches from the. sea. However, the frontiers of New Torritories have been fortified since the Japanese occupied Canton and mainland last October, but the defence of this sector is' no easy matter owing to absence of natural barriers.
The Japanese charge that Hongkong is a base for the supply of farms to the Chinese forces in the Interior, There is, however, Justiieation for this charge, as since the fall of Canton all arms' to China have been shipped via Burma and Soviet Russia, The arms are order~ and distributed by the Central Authorities to the forces in various provinces. Arms sent to Kwangt by sea are liable to be seized by the Japanese navy, which is blockading the China coast. Hence Hongkong doesn't feed arms to the interior of Kwangtung.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.