Each' foreigner is obliged to carry an identification-card (issued by the Japanese. Authorities) which he is frequently called upon, particularly after dark, by the numerous armed sentries to produce. For weeks the foreign community lived under inflexible curfew restrictions, such as, could be of no conceivable justification in the foreign areas of Hankow. The gates which the residents had paid for and erected at strategic points to control a possible influx of Chinese mobs and soldiers, are manned by Japanese naval and army sentries to restrict the movement of the foreign community who were responsible for their erection. It is true that after manifold protests the restrictions have latterly been relaxed, but they still suffice to be irksome, and their need or justificalion is vigorously disputed. gression.
The building of a separate fleet in the Atlantic would be a long.and expensive process. Naval officials estimate it would take approximately $3,000,000,000 and ten years to build a sea force equal to ihe one in Pacific. Many officials feel the lic is in the frame of mind to back such an undertaking.
Before advent of the long-range military bombing plane, it was felt that the country would be secure with "one ocean navy" because ofthe relative ease with which the fleet could steam off from one coast to another by way of the Panama Canal, Today, much of this assurance has been removed. Several well placed aerial bombs might disrupt communications for weeks and even months through destruction of the Canal locks.—United Press.
As on a previous occasion, the S.A.D. 3 (ex-British Concession) appears to have been singled out for particularly stern treatment. More than all the other areas it was subjected to the full rigours of the curfew. A model administration, a paramount British interest, one of the two rallying points of the foreign community in the recent crisis, but of no conceivable military value, it has been seriously disrupted and its future gravely prejudiced by usurpation of its policing rights in the violation of the Chen/O'Mally Agreement and the enforced disbandment of its Police Force. The peculiar drive against this area is very reminiscent of the drive against the then, British Concession in 1926/27. The actors have changed and the scene shifted, but one may suspect a striking similarity of purpose.
The foreign areas are controlled by armed sentries, naval in S.A.D/s 1
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