There will be general satisfaction that the gallant band who were holding the godown near Tibet Road Bridge were persuaded to accept the inevitable and the invitation to enter honourable internment in the Settlement, They had done enough to prove their readiness to defend their post to the last, The determination of their resistance is not compromised by their decision or by the admitted fact that their opponents were handicapped by the peculiarity of the situation which imposed on the attack severe restrictions arising from the desire to avoid injury to neutral life and limb and damage to neutral propert, as seems generally proved, the shells which fell in the Central District on Sunday morning were fired by Japanese gunners in the final effort to dislodge the godown garrison, it will be appreciated that, had the Japanese developed a large-scale attack such as would have been open to them in less complicated conditions, the Settlement might have sustained serious damage. As it was, the few shells which missed their objectives and hit various premises in the Set tlement—including the Yokohama Specie Bank—made themselves sufficiently unpleasantly felt, Whatever te criticism be forthcoming on that of the fact that the Japanese authorities have definitely accepted limitations in the light of recent experience and out of a desire to meet the representations made to them by neutral commanders.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.