Barbed Wire Barricades at Four Gates: Troops with Planes from Wuchang on Way Shanghai, Sept. 2.
It the Hunanese troops will Aight, [Changteh need not worry.
This was the reassuring news received privately in Shanghai yesterday about the Communist advance upon the city from the north-western corner of the province. There are about 2,000 troops. inside the city. itself. "Barbed wire "entanglements have been put up at all the approa-[ches to four of the city gates. About 2,000 troops "are disposed s0 2 10 Guard the environs. Martial law stilt reigns within the walls, where there have been several searches for Reds and spies without any apparent sue-ess,
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