The Archive · 1937

Cars Resume Hongkew Rescue Mission

Traffic Much Lighter Than on Previous Occasion Shanghai, Oct, 6, The volume of trame was fairly ight yesterday when trucks and automobiles and occasional handcarts were permitted to resume the with= Arawal of properties from Hongkew. With six days of grace ahead and only Hongkew open, there was none of the rush of the time-limited Fescue mission about. the orderly procession yesterday which went out via the Garden Bridge and returned over the Chapoo Road: Bridge.

was the first time since the opening of hostilities here that the Chapoo Read Bridge has been open and the Japanese marines and members of the Consular police were very particular about who and how many approached from the southern side. No time was lost in seeing to it that a large Chinese crowd "was dispersed soon after it~ had con regaled near ihe Bridge, From 8 am, until 230 p.m, vebleles fied north across the Garden Bridge, Most of the trucks, Torvies, ete, went ver in the morning and during Considerable periods in she afternoon the. bridge was barren' of" ea. After 330: pin. no more. cats were allowed to trots. "All cars had (0 be back acrons Chapoo Road Bridge by

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