Shanghai, Aug. 24.
No antisalreraft guns have been set up on Avenue Petain in the French Concession, It has been del itoly ascertained ' by Chinese. French ofleials in a joint investiys tion on the spot.
Press reports" that anti-aircraft weapons have been mounted on sky scrapers along the Frenchtown avenue had prompted a personal call fon General Yang Hu, commander of the Shanghai-Woosung Garrison and officer in charge of the enforcement fof martial law in Shanghai, by a high officer of the local French force.
The French Concession authorities have also emphatically denied that any aeroplanes. either Chinese or Japanese, had been shot at while ying over the French Concession by weapons inside the area,
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