The Archive · 1937

Houses Razed in Pootung

Busy Thoroughfare Swept by the situation, all troops get regular rest. Asked if they had any exercise the commander said that under present conditions it was natural that it had to be limited, but the men get their exercise in putting up defence Restricted by the limitations imposed by the 1932 Peace Agreement, in the Shanghai area no defences worth speaking of had been erected when the Chinese troops were called upon to resist the Japanese, the commander said. Hence construction of defence works was constantly going

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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