The "Daily Telegraph" states that, in the protest to Tokyo in connection with the Hongkong bombings, which the British Government may be expected to make, it is to be hoped that it will not be forgotten that "more than 10,000 men, women and children from the fishing population of Hongkong are reported to have been
junks destroyed, during the Japanese killed, and over 600 British-resistered blockade."
When these facts are remembered, the paper continues, "there seems to be an additional affront in the Japanese demands to exercise greater control even than they do at present over the great Settlement of Western nations in Shanghai."
"There will be no willing surrender," the journal adds, "of what remains of the International Settlement to the conditions which Japan has allowed to grow up in adjacent 'Shanghai.'
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