Japanese Bugler Popular with Those Next Door Shanghai, Aug. 19, The roof of the Taiwan Bank Building, next door to the "North~ China Daily News" building, has been. the scene of the most. mysterious goings-on during the past few days, 'These activities commenced with two Japanese bluejackets stationing them~ selves there on a sunny morning at the beginning of this week, and spending a few happy hours lagwagging at the Tézumo, the Japanese flagship. While one' bluejacket "did the flag-wagging, the other kept a close watch on the battleship through telescope, 'Alling in his' time by: Jotting down the messages received in reply, During the thunderstorm on Monday evening, it. was observed that the bluejackets had erected a tent in which to continue their exferelses, and figures could dimly be observed moving to and fro inside, while the lightning Mashed vividly overhead.
Yesterday morning the climax to the situation, fortunately not an international one this time, was reached when the bluejackets were seen to have been replaced by a small group of marines. This would have ocasianed no alarm by itself, but the disturbing feature of the case was that one of the marines had brought up a bugle. As the editorial offices of the "Norih-China Dally News" are almost on a level with the roof of the Taiwan Bank Building, the martial strains, breaking forth into the morn= Ing alr, were clearly audible to those at work next door. Several comments were heard during the morn-Ing on the soothing effect of a bugle unpen those engaged In their daily toil, Temporary "Exchange"
Aug. 20.
The presence of Japanese blue~ Jackets, engaged In fag-wagging and other activities on the roof of the Taiwan Bank on the Bund during the last three days, was explained yesterday. They were operators of a temporary "exchange" established on the roof of the building to transmit messages between the flagship HUMS, Idzumo™ andthe Naval Landing Party headquarters in Hongkew owing to a temporary breakdown in telephone communications. caused by damage to the buoy to which the flagship 1s moored, Originally, two bluejackets were observed sending message to the flagship but on Tuesday" they were superseded by a party of marines, and later it was discovered that a {eld telephone had been installed on the building with a slender wire trailing from the roof across the Bund to the electric power poles on.the other side of the From there, the telephone wire ran along. the Bund, Garden Bridge, North Szechuen Road to the Landing Parly Headquarters in Hongkew where it terminated at the front office to the left of the main entrance to the barracks, Telephone Lines Installed A Japanese officer was kind enough to explain to a "North-China Herald" reporter the circumstances under which the telephone had been erected ficiently and _unostentaviously in order to maintain communkcations between the two points during the interim of the damaged buoy, The telephone line was laid without attracting much attention except from people having a view of the bank roof. A" short time ago, said, the buoy to which the Idzumo During repairs on the Garden Bridge, footpath on the Soochow Creek side' (above), "while the opposite. foot
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