Shanghai, June 10.
For a few minutes yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the busy intersection of Szechuen and Nanking Roads seemed to be absolutely filled with soldiers and policemen, not to mention quite a small crowd of lookers-on, First, on the left hand side of the road' going "towards the Bund, came a Japanese military patrol, complete with. swords, red-tabs and arm-bands. Following close on the -patr:""s heels came a foreign sergeant of the S.M.P, and two or three Chinese police constables, 'A bare ten fect behind them came a patrol of Seaforth Highlanders. Instead of marching two by two, however, the Seaforths patrol, complete with police escort, had split into two main bodies, one on either side of the road, maintaining a careful distance behind the Japar= ese. The latter ignored the Highlanders and policemen, although one or two glanced back from time to time; and of course the Highlanders did not take any notice of the Japanese, tt was all just coincidental. workers, cooks, waiters and boys transportation workers, chauffeurs, gardeners, general utility coolies and: workers of scores of other trades, It makes no charges for inquiries and applications made by prospective employers to the Bureau for any class fof skilled and/or unskilled labourers that it has on fle.
Prospective employers would obtain for their requirements satisfactory services of the refugees, and at the same time be helping a worthy cause.
The Little fleet, which will eventually number 400 vehicles, dis operated by the newly-established Honan (Kiangnan) Industrial Company, with head office on Darroch Road.
Eighty Japanese chauffeurs, euch 20 years old, arrived here on May 19 und have since been given a rigorous course in physical. training and topographical knowledge.
Rising at o'clock in the morning, the drivers are required to attend 4 flag raising ceremony, have their daily' calisthenics and spend an hour pouring over a map of Shanghai The new company's bourd of direc tors was said to be very youthful, no director being older than 30 years age.
the basic taxi rate will be' ¥.030 for the first kilometre.
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