Looting in Pootung is keeping the Shanghai River Police busy these days. Taking advantage of the absence of regular Chinese police control in that area, marauders are trying to steal as much as possible and make off with their booty in small boats across the Whangpoo River, The stealing problem is made easier by the fact that so many godowns, mills, warehouses and private homes have been made readily accessible through the destruction caused by fires, shells, bombs ete.
Still_on the alert, the Shanghai River Police are swooping down on the looters ay they are crossing the river. They are arrested and taken to the Shanghai side where they are turned over to the Nantao Police Bureau. Each day the Nantao authorities send a truck into the Settlement to pick up the Pootung looters and their loot. What treatment is apportioned them in Nantao has not been revealed,
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