Braving the dangers of the war area, Mr. W. D, Souter, of the Shanghai Telephone Company, yesterday drove all the way out to the Hungjao exchange, located at the corner of Hungjao and Macleod Roads, many miles beyond the railway tracks. He went out unofficially, he said, to see how the building was getting along now that the local war had moved in that direction.
Leaving the settlement shortly before 3 p.m., Mr. Souter, accompanied by a Chinese, drove out Great Western Road, turned left into Columbia Road and thence out Rockhill Avenue to where it meets Hungjao Road and the Shanghai-Hangchow railway crossing. Bere at the crossing, he was stopped for the first and last time by Chinese soldiers discussions he has had in this connection have been made with the committee alone, Never was there any question of opening "negotiations" with the Japanes In some quarters, he said further, the refugee scheme was referred to as a "neutralization" plan, The term "neutralization" was clearly a misnomer in that the question was purely and simply the setting aside of an area in which non-combatants are to have their sanctuary to be respected by both sides as such.
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