Tt was stated that the Javanese approached the local Chinese bank officials on Thursday, for the purpose of renting Some tioccupfed rooms in the tipper floors of the building. Tue negotiations were deadlocked because no Chinese bank officials m Shangn-! háve the power to do that.
Since the removal of the head off of this bànk from the Settlement the first and second floors of the evacuated building have since been occupici by temporary offices of branch banks Which were evacuated from the occupied interior. These temporary offices, it was announced, were us.d by bank officials and employees who handle deposits of customers living in the interior. Classes also were opened on the fourth floor aad in some of the rooms on the third floor of the building for teaching bank employees accounting and other corelated subjects.
The bank is one of the big four Chinese Government institutions and although its head office has been Temoved, several branch cilices are still fünetioing in Shanghai. The Shanghai main office of the bank is located in the French Concession. There are some other Chinese bank buildings including the fo: mer premises of the Central Bank of China but these have remained free from Japanese interference.
Asked regarding the incident, the spokesman at yesterday's press conference stated that he had no information on the subject.
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