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March 1942 – In the weeks following the Fall of Hong Kong, it was rumoured, in both Allied and Axis newspapers, that Morris Abraham Cohen, the London-born major-general in the Chinese army, had been captured by the Japanese military in Hong Kong, and been summarily executed at the personal request of Adolf Hitler. Numerous considered and informative obituaries, outlining the General’s extensive Chinese politico-military career both in Canada and in China, followed in the wake of the announcement of his Hong Kong “execution”; adding further detail to those 1927 obituaries, which had been published earlier, following widely accepted rumours of his “assassination” in China at that time.