Large stores have been opened along the main thoroughfares. These include department stores under Japanese management. Chinese ele mentary schools are also in session various parts of the city.
Fishermen squatting on the banks: of creeks and lakes which are scattered around the city walls reflected the peaceful atmosphere that pervaded Nanking today.
The only reminder of the force siege laid to the oily a year ago were the innumerable bullet and shell marks that ave searred the <lty The "Reformed Government" now maintain its headquarters here.
Reminiscences of the battle of Nanking were exchanged by those who witnessed the fall of the city this day last year in a novel round. table conversation sponsored by the Nanking Radio Broadcasting Station which put it on the air for relay to Japan.
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