[REMINISCENT of the precautions that were taken here on August 13, last year, barbed-wire barricades were thrown ¿cross various thoroughfares and all alleyways with double entries n the Central, Louza and Chengtu Road districts, by scores of coolies of the P.W.D. beginning early yesterday, whilst search parties consisting of police and members of the Russian Regiment, S.V.C., were busy, in particular, along the Bund and at all main cross-streets leading from the Settlement into the Concession.
All pontoons on the Bund were carefully watched and all arrivals searched by uniformed police, whilst steel helmeted Russian Volunteers stood on guard with rifles and fixed bayonets. This step, it was learned, had been taken as it was found that many of the terrorist crimes perpetrated in the Settlement in recent weeks, were planned and carried out by people living in areas across the river and other points not under the control of the Settlement authorities. "These gunmen, it was stated, found it a simple task to enter the Sett loment by the river and to leave again the same way, once their missions were carried out.
Seaforth Highlanders continued to patrol Nanking Road throughout yesterday and they are understood to stand by during the night at their Race Course billets, thus being available in the minimum period of time if their services should be required.
In the American sector, whilst no special patrols were seen in the streets, precautions have also been taken and two members of the
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