The degree of panic is further reflected by the rents now being: exacted, These are in most cases from 30 to 50 per cent. higher than before the scare. Half-empty ter~ races are being filled overnight and edging-houses are crowded to their attics, The landlords and owners generally insist on advance payment of rent, sometimes for several months, and besides "key money"
exacted from the anxious now "tenants, This bleeding is done by experts in the Settlement generally, south of the Soochow Creek, and in the French Concession. The most brazen profiteering is said to be that perpetrated in the Concession. where modest Chinese lodgings abound.
Some of the refugees come from points on the Shanghai-Woosung rail-Wwoy and the Shanghai-Nanking tine and it Is odd to. observe refugees arriving by the latter line fat the same time as others are leaving, in equally large _numbers, for points on that railway. 'A. similar situation obtains in the sphere of river travel, many families arriving from the nearer" Yangtze ports as others depart for the came laces.
There has been only a small exodus of Japanese residents of the Shanghai northern area to date and no official word has been given to Japanese subjects advising them to leave. The Japanese Landing Party, since the discovery of the missing Seaman Miyazaki, has maintained an. extremely conservative attitude. There has been only the minimum of drills and no large-scale manoeuvres. Seniries and patrols do not wear steel-helmets, but only. topees and cloth caps. Members of the Landing Party ure freely given leave, as in ordinary times. "A "parade" of (auks, armoured cars, lorries and other niotor equipment in front of the Kiangwan Road barracks on Aug. 6 afternoon was routine, for the purpose of Ailing petrol tanks from the pump front of the building.
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