The Archive · 1927

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By Sunday night, the Yangtze district will be bare of all nese and Ameri with the exception of Hankow. The British fare now taking the same steps. The French wil probably decided to do after ey undergo a mob riot} directed against though all French women of Han-ow, with the exception of five, have already left for Shanghai, "The Japanese have here now three destroyers, three river gunboats, find one formidable cruiser.

These carry a landing force of 400, whom 00 are constantly on duty Ashore. Assisted by the volunteers, they are 500 available strength, with the big guns of their cruisers and destroyers trained on vital concentr fon points of Nationalist troops The Concession is well baried, The first line of defence consists wrrel-shaped formation of bed wire; half a block behind thi isa barbed wire fence; and about 50 feet behind, this another barbed wire entanglement, sandbag parapets erected between the second and third wire barricades. These extend from building to] building across every street leading into the Japane: Concession, with all corners doubly fortified" with cross" 5 factions of barbed wire en-Squads of Japanese neldent" occurs, they will be prepared for it. And they will use the three, four and six inch guns which are ready day and night} aboard their warships in port.

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