Merry Christmas from ‘The Shanghai Buster’

This was Bill Fairbairn’s Christmas card from the Shanghai Municipal Police Reserve Unit, better known as the anti-riot squad! The Christmas card was drawn for Fairbairn by the great White Russian cartoonist of Shanghai, Sapajou…Fairbairn was, of course, one of Shanghai’s legendary bad-asses who developed the ultimate fighting knife, engaged in hundreds of street fights, formed the Reserve Unit (Riot Squad) and later trained men and women in “gutter fighting” for behind the lines action in WW2….