Peasants Return to Homes Protected by Japanese Japanese naval and military units were making "rapid progress" in cleaning out the haunts of pirates along the banks of Lake Tai and operating in the various creeks, canals and rivers in the Shanghai hinterland, a Japanese naval spokesman announced yesterday.
Chinese farmers from the countryside were now gathering in various villages where Japanese protection was available, he asserted.
The pirates, whose numbers were nei augmented by Chinese str der possessed ma ome cases, "Most have only rifles, however", the spokesman declared.
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