With lorries conveying ammunition and supplies up Broadway and returning for more, the other side of the question, the evacuation from Yangtszepoo, became all the more apparent. On more than one occasion, a lor filled with refugees and their almost pitiful belongings would be passed by a naval lorry, with three or four men seated on top of a pile of ammunition cases and supplies.
Late last night it was learned that the Japanese had billeted 300 mer at the Kung Dah Mill in Yangtszepoo and were also using the North District Primary School in North Szechuen Road, having taken over the entire building. Commercial lorries were pressed mtg service being used throughout the "afternoon in addition to the Japanese military vehicles.
All the Japanese naval landing party patrols were doubled last night in the Hongkew area and wore steel helmets while carrying fixed bay oners. Field telephone lines were run up in the Dixwell, Hongkew and Kiangwan districts in the vicinity of the Japanese headquarters.
On the N.Y.K. wharf, right" next to the Japanese cruisers, were the Shanghai Maru and the Nagasaki (Continued on page 11) dur view between Mr, S, Okamoto, the Japanese Consul-General and Mr, O. K-
Sui, the Mayor of Shs and Lieutenant-Comunander the Japanese Naval Attache, and General Yang Hu, Shanghai and Woosung Garrison Commander, yesterday afternoon, No formal demand or ultimatum has been presented.
At the "interview Mr. Yui said that on the night of the incident units of the corps had been already withdrawn from the neighbourhood of Japanese residential districts and that the defences had already been taken away as a reassurance to the public Earlier in the afternoon, Mr. N
Aall, Consul-General for Norway and the Senior Consul, called on the Mayor and the Japanese Consul-General. Although the nature of the visit was not divulged, it is understood that it was in connection with the present tension in Shanghai.
The visit was made following a meeting of the Consular Body on Tuesday night. The decision reached was reported to be "to request the Chinese and Japanese authorities to prevent the extéhsion of possible hostilities to Shanghai."
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