Some 200 passage boats, river steamers and freight vessels were recipients of the order taking them out of private service last night. They must remain tied at their wharves at the disposition of the military, Antiaireraft_ guns were being mounted last night on some of the largest of these vessels, Over the roofs of the power plant at Sichuen, the engine plant of the waterworks and the cement plant, big nets have been spread. Should aerial bombs be dropped they are counted on to break the force of the fall, so that there will be no explosion. And if a bomb does go off, it will not be in close contact with the roof it cannot do so much damage.
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