No Further Inmates Shifted Owing to Deadlock The padlock between the Settlement and the Japanese authorities regarding the removal of prisoners from the Ward Road Gaol, which has been under shell-fire for' several continued y and no inmates nated.
It was reported on Sunday that the Japanese refused to let further prisoners pass to south of the Soochow Creek because the 160 Chinese boys from the reformatory had not been handed over to the Chinese authorities but had instead been placed in the custody of a Chinese benevolent society in Yunnan Road. No-one was allowed to evacuate the gaol after the reformatory boys had been taken out.
The state of the gaol was reported to be quiet yesterday.
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