Department and P.W.D. yesterday had gone far to eliminate the horrors of the area north of the Soochow Creek east of Hongkew Creek. The Hongkew Market had been well cleaned out and disinfectant sprayed over the stalls formerly containing decayed meat, fish and vegetables. In other parts of the Eastern district bodies had been removed or destroyed.
The Chusan Road Market, near the Ward Rosd Goal, still was one of the "bad spotd' m the, Wayside district, Terrific fighting had taken place there. The streets were littered with rifle and machine-gun ammunition, much of it being unused. In the market itself, on the ground floor and the first floor, remained several bodies of Chinese soldiers who had been shot dead there, and in lanes about the market were other bodies of men who had died fighting. There were shells of large calibre lying in out-of-the-way places, awa ing safe removal. Two small hand-grenades, with the pins removed, which had for some reason been placed outside the wall of the Wayside Police Station on Saturday, were happily gone yesterday. The fly nuisance was still one of the chief we The Japanese authorities did not allow anyone but their own nationals to proceed north of Haining Road in Hongkew yesterday. Hongkew throughout and territory to, the east showed considerable Japanese aetivity, not the least of it being on the part of Japanese civilian men usually wearing arm-bands.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.