The back of one of the godowns had been cleared as a shelter for refuge of whom only a few hundred roma fed." The Fest had been evacuated to Shanghat in small batches, day by day, a2 the wharts ferry service was fable to resume a limited business.
"One of our troubles" said the wharf manager as he stood looking down on the mes, women, and chile fron' who. were sill Tet, "hag been {o.stop these people esting. back. When we have an alr raid about here, {hey all want to go to Shanghab, and we are glad to see. them "go." But then' Shanghai has an air raid and they all want to come back. Many
away. on on tenders. "So'we have them have (comeback, slowed had to start a system of passes for those who can come back, and make! those who want to go. to Shanghat promise that they'll stay there—cr at fany rate not try to return here:
property Is @_ereek running ini ust down river from the whart Into Pootung." The Chinese have sunlc a lighter near the. mouth of the rec, but that haa not prevented one fof the Japanese river" gunboats, now fut of a_Job on the Yangta Sometimes" nosing In and junning the foreshore of the village ust Behind, Chinese in plain-clothes ould be seen on this foreshore. They Wwere apparently. soldiers who had resumed their civilian attire' os the best means of evading the attentions of the Japanese ait force.
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