The evacuation of property from "north of the creek" continued on a large scale yesterday. From early morning till dark there was a steady stream of humanity over the Garden Bridge, back and forth, to remove valued possessions from houses in the eastern area. There will be further removals to-day.
British, Americans, Portuguese, Russians, Indians and many other nationalities shifted their goods yesterday under Japanese protection. The Settlement Police did much to help the movement, and numerous lorries carried property into safer territory.
Some of the Chinese remaining in the Eastern District do not keep to s but are seen in alley-reets in broad daylig! Some of them have been seen working for the Japanese in control of the district Bodies are still being burnt in the northern® part of the Eastern Area.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.