30 Jun 1941, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp

Henry R. Luce, the owner of Life magazine, publishes a story (page 82) about his flight with CNAC from Hong Kong to Chungking - 'the most dangerous passenger airline in the world':

At 1.30 a.m. we are routed out of our beds in a Hong Kong hotel and driven to an airport....At 3 a.m. we take off on our five-hour flight in complete darkness - no lights on the plane and no smoking allowed. Pilot ((William)) Macdonald zooms the ship up through the intricate hills of  the harbor of Hong Kong where the lights of an imperial city still twinkle in rows. Soon all is black and we are over Japanese-occupied territory. In 40 minutes we pass to the right of Canton, the graveyard city where 1,000,000 Chinese have resumed living but there is no life and where Japanese pursuit planes are concentrated.

Luce was once called 'the most influential private citizen in the America of his day'. The rest of the story is a detailed report of what he found in Chungking, designed to stir up American opinion in favour of Chiang Kai-shek and his fight against the Japanese.