As offices released their employees noon, the crowds on. The Bund north of Nanking Road grew thicker fand thicker, while morggand more Japanese, all "armed" with the [Japanese flag, came over the bridge from Hongkew {0 line the pavements eight or nine deep and await the arrival of the Japanese force:
By 12.19 p.m. all traMe attempting to {urn into Nanking Road from the Bund was diverted into side-streets, even the buses being made to patio along the waterfront. 'The only ears permitted (0 drive up Nanking Road' were the innumerable new sedans, old tourers, big cars and small ones, each and every one. of which carried a full load of Japanese clvillons and reservists, not te men tion flags sticking out of all windows at all angles, Large squads of foreign, Sikh and Chinese policemen were kept busy along the rond, and no one was per~ mitted on the' north" pavement of Nanking Road except a few. foreign officers and press cameramen, The two main cheering points of the bee fogged Japanese civilians were in front of the Yokohama Specie Banke building and around" the Nanking Road and the Bund trame signal tower,
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