The occupation of Chapel, it was learnt, Was accomplished at the cost fof ten Japanese casualties. A sole Japanese sentry patrolled the North 'Station compound. Four more occupied a sandbag redoubt at the corner of Boundary Road. and North Paoshan Read opposite Blockhouse "B" where British troops bid' cheery "Good morning" and. farther long Boundary Road another party Were constructing another. post. Cautious reference to a land mine inside the iron fence and near a point' where the Chinese had cut Sections of alls and embedded them alongside a newly~duye trench was made by Japanese official guides.
Exploring the congested district of narrow alleyways running from Range Road to the station district provides reason for the difficulty experiencea Shanghai, Oct. 29.
Describing it as "an illustration of the care being exercised by the anese army to prevent harm to third nationals in the present hostilla Japanese military spokesman yesiorday morning cited a ease where a. Japanese tank unit had not returned Chinese fire because of the presence of unidentined foreign photographers fon the Chinese side.
"This, the spokesman said, had occurred Wednesday afternoon when a Japanese tank unit advanced along Chungsan Road to the vicinity of Soochow. Creek bridge near the Toyoda Colton Mills.
in the first. tank, the Japanese officer revealed, was a staff officer "specially detailed for the purpose of preventing any. untoward incidents with third party nationals, either military or civilian."
Chinese on the southern bank, the spokesman said, were firing at the Tanks, but the latter stayed their fre rather than cause possible injury to 'a number of foreigners who had their
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