Machinegun fire has been audible on the outskirts of the city throughout the morning, but it appears thit virtually no real opposition is being offered the Japanese.
Japanese marines, who drew alongside the Japanese concession in two motorbosis this morning and landed on the foreshore, conversed for a few minutes with Father Jacquinot and Lieutenant-Commander Edward Neville, Captain of the British gunboat Gnat, using an interpreter.
During this conversation, standing in the drizzling rain, the' Japanese officer. in command of the marines gave his assurances that the Jaceuinot Zone would be respected.
'The marines then approached' the Ttalian sailors guarding the ex-German Concession and informed them that it would be unwise for foreigners to enter the Japanese concession for the present.
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