Troops are housed throughout the city and there are still several thousands here. Their coming and going to other places has been constant since their landing. Cavalry are stationed as far as Litsum. but Laoshan is free of military. Planes fly overhead daily-and there have even been rumours of Chinese plane having passed over this city at a great height and the anti-aircraft preparations seen on the streets and atop the Bank of China and other tall buildings certainly seems to lend truth to these rumours recently which have been denied by the Japanese authorities, who claim their men were only practicing. Tanks and armoured cars rumble and clatter about the streets occasionally. Soldiers and marines are everywhere. A.S.C. trucks and lorries careen wildly along the streets with a callous disregard of life and limb and several serious accidents have along the line. The rolling stock formerly on this line was all removed by the Chinese military when they left and replacements will have to be made wholesale by the South Manchuria Railway before normalcy prevails again.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.