The Archive · 1938

POOTUNG SITUATION

EASES

Farmers Allowed to Visit Land: Traffic Resumed Negotiations for the reorganization of the mobile units in Pootung between the Chinese and Japanese are nearing completion, according to information from Chinese sources. The only question still pending concerns the appointment of commanders of these units.

With the easing of the situation in Pootung, traffic between Pootung and Shanghai has been, resumed. A number of farmers returned to Pootung yesterday, bringing a quantity of vegetables and also other food stuffs to Shanghai.

According to those who returned here yesterday, Shingchang village, io the west of Nanwei, probably suffered most in the Japanese compaign. Half of the village, it was reported, was laid waste by gun fire,

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