Soldiers Dead Beat and Hungry Pouring into Shanghai and Laying Down Arms The number of Chinese troops who ave interned in the French Concession and Foreign Settlement was by Monday afternoon given as. just over 3,000, A fey, between 20 and 40, made their way to the Foreign Settlement individually, but the rest came over in bodies to the Cones sion, being disarmed on reaching the boundary. To accommodate the nen Was no easy matter, and a rangements were made whereby the Foreign Settlement took over 2,600 of them, To start with these were went to the Gordon Road Riding School, but as the accommodation there was insufficient the P.W.D. depot in Sinn Road was requisitioned and about 500 sent there, Arrangements were also made to have them transported as soon as possible to the refugee camp which w established, In Yangtszepoo Road during the last trouble in the vicinity of Shanghai.
'There men were absolutely dead beat on reaching the French Concession. They had had nothing to eat since Sunday morning, and by Sunday night were ready' to drop) with fatigue. Between Sunday night) and Monday morning, for instan 44s many: as 400 must have slept in Rue Lafayette. numbers of them occupying the lawns attached to hhousex there. They were rounded up in the morning and disposed of fas atated, Those brought over to. the Foreign Settlemesnt were given Wheaten cakes to eat—they are Shantung men and accordingly are not great rie eaters—and don Road preparations were at afoot for the construction a stove so that tea might be made.
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