A walk up Nanking Road during the afternoon was enough to convince one that the situation had become much easier. Before noon few of the shops had opened, but during the day they opened few each hour and. by evening practically the whole of Nanking! Road from Tibet Road to the Bund was practically normal, with the exception of the three large department stores, which were closed.
'This was' also. true to a great extent in the outlying districts and in Nantao and the Native City. But in Chapel" practically "everything still remained closed, the merchants dently not having recovered from the reign of terror of the two previous days,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.