Police Specials and the S.V.C. Russian Regiment were on duty from early morning till late at night, Along the Settlement side of Avenue Edward VII, Kiangse, Hupeh and other roads and ways were closed with barbed wire. At other inters s searches were carried out by the police from early morning well into the night. Some of the bridges over the Soochow Creek were closed and extraordinary vigilance was maintained on those that remained open for traffic.
Search-parties and special patrols, composed of the police (including the Reserve Unit) and the Russian Regiments, S.V.C, operated in all districts. The Police Specials assisted in the searches. Central station police alone arrested 65 suspects many of whom had criminal records Turn-out to Nanking Road The GV.C. Russians, cruising in the neighbourhood, ce-operated with the police from Central Station at 830 o'clock yesterday morning when an armed-robbery alarm was received from a Chinese shop at 324 Nanking Road, near the Continental Emporium. Scores of policemen in steel waistcoats raced to the scene in motor-cars but found that an S.V.C. lorry, with a mounted Lewis-gun, had already arrived and was drawn up outside the shop with the machine-gun trained on the entrance. The alarm, however, turned out to have been sounded acci-lorry. While pienicking, the foreigners heard a number of rifle she! presumably due to guerilla operations west of the aerodrome.
Yesterday, some public garages would not permit their hire-cars to go beyond the western defence perimeter, at the railway Hung! Road, although many other crossed the line quite freely throughout the day. Scores of foreigners also walked in the Hungjao area and no incidents" involving them were resorted. During the day, apparently, there were no guerilla activities. either or south of the foreign-controlled, areas
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