As the Japanese did not evacuate Shum Chun as on the previous occupation, the 20th Brigade was orderbt to dislodge them with the cooperation of the guerillas under the command of Wang Yoh-chou, a former division commander. It was confirmed that, the Chinese troops did enter Shum Chun on October 1, but the Japanese hid behind entrenched positions and mowed down the Chinese, "The surprise counter-attack resulted in the death of one Chinese battalion commander and injury to the other two, and the losses in ranks were heavy. This was due {o poor intelligence work, while the Japanese aerial scouts gained useful information by constant reconnaissance over Chinese lines.
Shum Chun is enveloped, however, by Chinese troops in the north and east. Reports stated that desultory fighting went on last night, as the attackers eduld operate only at night and under rainy weather to avoid aerial aftoks. The Japanese positions in Shum Chun are well fortified
te their setback, the morale of the garrison there is small: the Chinese troops is high. They received their pay on the night of aba September 30 and were given a hearty m bein the attack. - The is lipped and dud tw w kew commanding officer Brigade Vu in ignorance that the two-power nonaggression pact does not Support unwarranted aggression.
Tt was stage-managed. Stalin found himself a pawn at that time. He had been engineered into a position which did him little credit with other countries, In any case Hitler hoped to stop his talks with the allies and stole the thunder to make a great piece of propaganda for the Nazi regime. By comparison Stalin was made to look a culprit. General Franco of Spain refused to sign en as part of the military axis so he must have known what was afoot.
Hud he signed he would have been Stalin's colleague today.
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