For their part, the people, General Teal continued, should maintain attitude of calm while yoing about their respective duties behind the "Phe civilian point of view was expressed by Mr, Tsou Lu when he Geclared that he was fully in support of the (we declarations made General Chiang Kai-shek, with regard to the North China situation, In the event of the outbreak of major Sino-Japanese hostilities, Mr. Tsou said, China will have the important lask of preserving national istence and of protesting against the imperialistic acts of an outlaw in the family of nations."
Both General Tsai and Mr. Tsou are going to Nanking within the next Tew days for an interview with General Chiang and other high government leaders, the barricades were not removed. Taxes were owed by some of the defaulting ratepayers as far back as the last quarter of 1936. The tenants of the houses concerned were dul wemed by the Council, and) when they remained obdurate "the Council, after a further period of race, siruek quickly on the night of March.
The terraces concerned consisted of a vast compound of modern apart ment buildings largely inhabited by Chinese; a total of 127 flats and sevral hundred people were shut off by the Council "from the. Settlement Large bodies of police constables, including. the Reserve Unit and their "Red Marias," stood by, in contrast to last night's bare handful of police offers. Inside the utile "town," the Chinese Police were keeping order with the assistance of rifles with fixed bayonets,
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