Yesterday, the Loyals took over from the Welch Fusiliers, manning the formidable system of sandbag redoubts built—first line, second line, and third line, with other posts even then in reserve. They took over, also, the blockhouses and high pill-boxes which have, in so many other troubles, and. early in—this, been the stamping ground of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.
Blockhouse, most famed of all, at North Honan and Boundary Roads, was all quiet yesterday and it seemed 1992 all over again. On closer examination, however, things had changed. "Charlie Chan's" precarious perch is no more and in its place is a heavy concrete machinegun emplacement, camouflaged with matting.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.