Up to the present the naval forces in. Shanghai have confined themselves to ce-operating with the Municipal authorities. The senior officer is Admiral Nomura, whose flagship is the Japanese cruiser Tone, and the various naval councils have been held under his presidency fund the men to guard the prisoners sent ashore by his sanction as the jor authority in port.
believed that possibly the represented in Shanghai could land about 800 men. while with the lapse of another day or two this number may be brought up to well over 1,000. At present the naval strength is made up as follows:—
Japanese (Senior Admiral)—One cruiser, one gunboat, and one gunboat on her way to Nanking but which could be called upon.
American (Admiral MeVay)—two destroyers and one gunboat One gunboat at Nanking. Three destroyers en route here.
British—Two cruisers. One gunboat with Senior Admiral en route ere.
French—Two gunboats, one sloop.
Ttalian—Two cruisers, two gun-
Tt has to be remembered that these are sea units, and their landing strength in rifles and machine guns is small in comparison with their real fighting power. Further as matters stand their policy here is to work accordance with Municipal requirements, and if a move is required beyond Municipal scope it may be taken for granted that a reference Home Governments will be caled The Line of Defence The agenda to be considered at the next conference has not been made known beyond that it has to do with the defence of the tlement. Whether it is to be gested that the defence should be on a line quite outside the Settle.
ts is not known, and the prevailing opinion is that this question, which is known to have been mooted, will be reserved for a future conference. Admiral Murray Anderson, with his flagship H.M.S. Bee, is expected here on Tuesday, and as he is the senior naval officer likely. to be in port for some time to come, the question of carrying the defence of the foreign quarters of Shanghai some distance into the country is ikely to be left to a conference under his chairmanship.
The position as it stands at present may be said to be- exactly the mo as during the troubles of the Into summer—that everything nee sary will be done to preser the integrity of the Settlement boundaries, This simply means the disarming and interning of all fugitive xoldiors.
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