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Swatow (Shantou; 116.700E
23.367N) was opened as a treaty
port
to the British by China in
1858. As a result, Swatow had fairly
extensive port facilities
for coastal
traffic, capable of unloading 30 ships a week, and the town had one of the few automatic phone systems in China.
Swatow had a sizeable civilian Japanese
population, which was evacuated starting on 12 August 1937. The pot was
captured by the Japanese in June 1939. It was bombed by B-29s on 14 October 1944 in support of the Leyte operation, and again on 15-16 January 1945 by carrier aircraft.
References
Craven and Cate (1983; accessed 2010-10-16)
Frank and Saw (1968; accesed 2010-10-16)
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