Brushing the holiday dust from their textbooks, Japanese pupils flocked to the Central District Primary School, Range Road, at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning commence the new minds freed of worries over shelling and bombing. Teachers and pupi congratulated each other on their safe return to classes. about 845 pin. In reporting the full facts of the occurrence to the Senior Consul, the Chairman of the Council stressed the fact that the continuing presence of Japanese: troops after the incident in question hampered the police.in the performance of their duties.
On December 6 a party of Japanese soldiers arrested four Chinese at the Great Eastern Hotel in Kin Wo Ka, off Nanking Road, After being taken north of the Soochow Creek for questioning, the persons concerned were released. The Chairman of the Council protested to the Senior Consul in regard to the usurpation of police functions in the Settlement. The Japanese Consul-General authorized publication of a statement to the effect that the affair took place without his knowledge and that he had taken steps to avoid the recurrence of a similar affair, By the end of the year the Council was realizing that ihe problems of rehabilitation and securing a return to normal conditions are, in their own way, as difficult as those which arose during the hostilities, ways at the Philadelphia Ni Kansas. She is the United States under
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