A Personally Escorted Tour Through an All Quiet Japanese War Zone LI, most fortunately, was quiet on the north-western front of Sino-Japanese hostilities yesterday when a party of foreign newspaper men went on a highly interesting tour under Japanese guidance, They saw a Hongkew transformed by war hurt; the Naval Landing Party Barracks scarcely harmed despite continuous attack by artillery and aircraft; Japanese soldiers everywhere alert, brisk and showing no signs of the wear and tear of eleven days of fighting, and finally wandered about the Eight Character Bridge advance outpost where the paraphernalia of war was the only visible sign that strife was in progress with the enemy lines only 500 yards away.
Most of the party must have felt a tingle of excitement as they headed into usually forbidden Hongkew with promises of front line scenes and predictions of stray shots and shells from Chinese strongholds.—Decapitated bodies in the Whangpoo, stiffened in the kneeling position in which they had met death, and the relentless: sturdily aggressive little Japanese soldiers gave the right mental ad-Justment for the journey ahead. Broadway was quiet, scarcely marked by strife, but street scenes flashing past the' speeding cars in Boone, Range and Szechuen Roads told their own terrible story in shops smashed and looted on the first wave of the and remarked that he had had other fighting than the daily one with' his beard.
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