The Japanese Embassy spokesman yesterday stated that "a plan for the neutralization of a part of Nantao is gradually taking shape. The "benevolent third party" which suggested the plan, he said, designated the northern part of the Chinese city, north of Fangpang Road, as the area whose neutralization was desirable.
Inside, or east, of the tracks at that point, the Chinese soldiers were busy digging a trench -that ran almost parallel to the tracks. They had a machine gun. nest, Mr. Souter said, that was within about fifty yards of the British post on Rockhill Avenue. Cne machine-gun was mounted on a gravemannd and another, close by, was heavily camouflaged.
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