British patrols—all members of the Shanghai Municipal Pollce—are still preserving order in the Eastern dis-Triet of Shanghai, In many important foreign properties, sub-stations of police have been established; and Though officially the police may have vacated the area, with the closure fof the Yulin Road, Yangtszepoo, and other stations, and it may have been Toft to the mercy of looters and Chi-nose troops filtering through the Sapanese lines, there are still a body of British men who are prepared to go to any extreme to see that the {radition of the Shanghai Municipal Council is preserved, For the last six days these men, with sub-stations "at the Shanghai Power Company, the Yangiszepoo lactary, the China Soap Works, the Shangtial Waterworks, and other plants in that part of Shanghai, have been doing their best—and very good their best has turned out to be—to keep men of the opposing forces, and those of the stray population, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, out of the dis lets they have been ordered to guard, Japanese members of the municipal police have been too busily engaged in sectors nearer their own ines to take any important part in these guarding operations, All Volunteers The whole of the police force left the eastern district is composed of volunteers. Some of the men are married, out they considered that their chief obligation was to keep up the tradition of the Municipal Pollc of looking after any ratepayers' prop~ erty irrespective of inconvenience or east to the men concerned, For six days the small and heroic band which have held on in the eastern district have been severed from their friends ud families elsewhere, Every day and all night they have patrolled the sitvels in SALP. radio vans, so that they could send alarms to the appropruite quarters whenever they were heeded, The only trouble was that the "appropriate quarters" wore usually ut off from the central areas of the Seitlement whenever the enier= gencies were really urgent.
During their time in the eastern siege, nese policemen have hud owning more 10 eat than dry brewd and bully beef. Their water supply was taken from the taps. In euch sub-station there were about half a dozen British subjects, some of them white comrades in the emergency, and have done sterling work, Six Days of Strain Leave is being given to these British volunteers from the police whenever it cane urranged—which 1s once every six days. Two men a day, when the situation warrants, can risk their dives und come through Ube streets filled with snipers and men= faced by Chinese who have leaked through the Japanese Jines, and can come back" to the comparative civilization of the Settlement south of the Soochow Crock to get a hair-cut or a shave, They are only too glad to get away from the strain of acting fas the custodians of the law in a district "where the only law that Feigns Is that of death ana destruc ton,
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