Without Rotyiüg the Settlement police, between fifteen and 20 laineléthes men, alleged to be-jong to the Japanese gendarmer: e, forcibly occupied Several rooms of the. former premises of ihe head ofice of the Bank of ammunications at the corner of the und and Hankow Road yesterday morning and they were still there lote last night. Chinese officials and en.ployees of branch banks who had tome from the interior snd were housed in the building withdrew.
The plain-clothes men arrived in the Vicinity of bank in motor ems bearing Shanghai Defence Force number ates and on foot, Some of them look up patrol duty outside the building while others entered the building without meeting resistance from a small number of Indian watchmen and Chinese Servants and clerks.
After obtaining the keys from then the Japanese rushed to the third floor of the building and took over some tôms there wich they had tried to rent on Thursday. The matter was brought to the attention of the police by jo foreign officer on' patrol duty who saw the arrival of the Japanese patty atid who informed tne Central Police Station of what had happened. A police detail was sent to the scene, but were told that since the building belonged. to a Chinese Governmeit institution the Japanese wire about to'use it ás their offices.
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