Armed Boy On Hong Kong's Border -- At an age when most boys are still playing with toy weapons, this youthful soldier of the Chinese Communist Army is serving in the garrison at Shumchun, a newly-occupied large town just north of the point where the Canton-Kowloon railway crosses the frontier into Hong Kong colonial territory Many of the Communist newcomers appear no more than 14 or 15 years of age but, like this boy, may be well armed, with pistol and grenade at the belt. October 27, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).