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1938: Hong Kong
During 1938 the fate of this important British colony was bound up more closely than ever with that of the embattled Chinese Republic at whose gateway it stands. The long-standing fear that Japan might carry its war into South China and thus cut off Hong Kong's access to the interior was finally...
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