A Chinese spokesman said late yesterday that the scheme had been accepted by the Chinese authorities. It is further understood that the Japanese also are favourable towards it, Roughly, the area which it is hoped to make a haven for noncombatants is bounded on the north, east and west by the curving Boulevard des Deux Republiques (Min Kuo Lu) and on the south by Fang Pang Road. It is the northern third of what was, before the Chinese revolution, the old walled city of Shanghai,
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