Michael Alderton (essarem) notes that: The above is a Canadian newspaper report from Winnipeg announcing the supposed execution by the Japanese military in Hong Kong of Major-General Morris A. ‘Two-Gun’ Cohen. As might be expected, the resulting premature obituary provides insights into the General’s all-important early Chinese politico-military career in Canada prior to his departure for China, as well as revealing something of his subsequent achievement of spectacular international fame in that foreign land. The image accompanying the article is one of General Cohen participating in the funeral rites for Dr Sun Yat-sen in Peking during the Spring of 1929. (see: 1929 - Gen. Two Gun Cohen, Dr Sun's protective companion & party colleague | Gwulo )
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Maj.Gen. M.A. “Two-Gun” Cohen.
Michael Alderton (essarem) notes: 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. The Chinese General’s third and final comprehensive set of obituaries followed in the wake of his actual, recorded death, which occurred in Manchester, England during September 1970.