With regard to a report from Dairen, dated October 31, that a traveller who claimed to be an employee of the Siemens Company had stated that General Chan Chu-tang, commander of the 81st Chinese Division, was executed by order of General Feng Vu-hsiang in Taian, the Siemens (China) Company wish to state that they have no resident agent in Taian, nor any traveller who has been in Taian during the last few months. foodstuffs regarding their origin, quality, quantity and price.
Sanitation work in the Eastern district was concentrated on the collection and disposal of corpses, soldier corpses were rendered safe by military authorities who removed all ammunition, hand grenades etc. with which in many instances they were heavily laden, and large scale cremations were carried out. Particular attention was paid to the surroundings of various public utility companies, Police and fire stations; otherwise in the absence of anyyaccountable population, sanitary conditions in the devastated and evacuted areas gave no cause for alarm.
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