Eighty Years Ago: Asia Pacific, Sep 5 – 11, 1940

Sep 5, 1940: Hong Kong garrison’s commander says city is able to withstand any siege

Sep 6, 1940: United States and Britain protest growing Japanese pressure on French Indochina, stressing their own interests in the area

Sep 7, 1940: US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox arrives in Pearl Harbor to inspect naval maneuvers in Hawaiian waters

Sep 8, 1940: Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek calls for greater cooperation with the United States to strengthen ‘common security’ in Pacific amid growing Japanese ambitions

Sep 9, 1940: Aircraft carrier Yorktown damaged in collision with submarine Shark during maneuver in Hawaiian waters

Sep 10, 1940: Lieutenant General Tatekawa Yoshitsugu is named new Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union. Prior to departure, he says he dislikes communists but likes common Russians

Sep 11, 1940: Japanese troops fan out into north Chinese countryside in effort to suppress partisan offensive

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