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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9736759" data-attributes="member: 6999616">February 1941. The characters were in Chongquing, the temporary capital of Nationalist China. They were there escorting a delegation from the Indian National Congress, who were being shown just how vicious the Japanese war against China was. There was a faction of the INC that believed the Japanese statements about Pan-Asian unity and viewed them as potential liberators of India from the British. The PC's faction within the Indian police/intelligence system considers Indian independence from Britain inevitable, but conquest by Japan as disastrous.The Nationalist Chinese agree with that, and were happy to show the INC why. However, their government is riddled with corruption and Japanese spies. One of those spies identified the PCs, based on a report from events in Hong Kong a few months earlier, and decided to kill these "dangerous British agents." They hired some local gangsters, dressed them up as local police, got the Japanese Army Air Force to stage an air raid and sent their fake policemen into the PCs' hotel's air raid shelter to "evacuate them to a place of greater safety."  That turned into a shootout in the air raid shelter, when it became clear that the other hotel guests were also mostly armed and the fake police were badly outnumbered and significantly outgunned. The real Chongquing police managed to round up the spy ring before anyone in the pay of the Japanese found a good excuse to stop them. The INC delegation will recommend to the party leadership that defence against Japan should be supported, provided the British don't start a war against Japan, which nobody considers plausible.Yes, the Japanese intelligence services really were this bad in 1941. The job had no prestige and attracted no respect. Not that British intelligence in the East was a lot better, as will become clear later in 1941.</blockquote>

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