More Barbed Wire Barricades: and Increased Patrols The situation, although extremely tense in Shanghai on Sunday because of the large mass meeting passed uneventfully, but military vigilance! was not relaxed the slightest. At many points double guards manred the sandbags, while at Avenue Edward VII, Volunteers and Specials were reinforced.
In the French Concession armoured cars patrolled the roads, especially where Rue clu Consular ran close to the Boulevard des deux Republiques.
Rumours rife in Shanghai on Sunday had it that several Annamites were killed, whilst fighting the Kuomintang. This was officially denied at French headquarters during the afternoon. Several Annamites were badly wounded, however, about nine} o'clock in the morning: when a motor track in which they were being' transported made a sudden turn at Avenue Dubail and threw five of them out, two being severd Tike Communists have about 13,000} farmed troops in the vicinity of Shanghai, distributed as follows:
1,000 Pootung, 1,500 at Hsinlung-1,500 at Lunghua, 5,000 in.
1d Nartao, 1,500 at Woo-rei (mostly in having Quinsan on Saturday.
These figures do not include the admittedly large number of men not] in uniform and the guerillas and The first sign of aggressiveness!
layed by the invading—Comts_was on Dixwel Road, tung Road connects two parts of Chapei, lying on either side of Dixwell Road, The khaki-clad Satunlay threw up emplacements on both their repd.—Foreign their" fortifications Dixwell Toad,—but the have refused to permit] through traffic, This is of no consol quence at this time as 95 per cent. lof the foreign population in the area has been evacuated. On the other hand if North Szechuen Road is again subjected to fire, the retreat Of those beyond Range Road, including the North Szechuen Road Police Station will have been cut off.
The barricading of outlying rosls and areas continues apace, In Hongkew alleyways and dangerous places have been doubled wired. The Chinese side of North Thibet Rosd is also cut off from the-other side.
A crowd of 8,000 persons is reported to have collected on Sunday at Tientungan Railway station, just beyond the Public School for Boys. Nearly 500 rifles Were counta? and 800 pistols. Additional guards patrolled North Szechuen Road Extension toward Hongkew Park throughout the day.
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