Se somewhere about midnight, in ner strangely similar to the adopted at the burial of, the Japanane aval Sores brought up the poles and needed and. between midnight. and 2 a.m. completed a barbed wire jade along the boundary line of their Concession, leaving half the outside the barricade. This action was deemed necessary by the Japanese authorities, but it has caused a further wave of indignation as s0 many Chinese have bean accustomed to making free use of the Japanese roads in approaching their houses and shops.
Rumours abound, The removal of one of the hulks down to the Japanese foreshore and the berthing of the steamers down there is crelited with being part of a scheme for a general exodus of the Japan-exe. On the other hand the arrival of "anothe> destroyer, the erection of sandbag defences snd the constant use of the wireless on the gunboats are all quoted as proof: that war is impending. Tt is very interesting to hear women from cotton godowns talking among thentselves of the war that is pending been taking snapshots of the incidents at the one of the papers hints that the object of this snapshotting is to. get photographs of the pickets so. as to be able to identify the Inter,
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