Shanghai, Aug. 20.
Herole efforts by the SMP. Health Department and P.W.D. yesterday had. gone far to eliminate the horrors fof the area north of the 'Soochow JCreok east of Hongkew Creek. The Hongkew' Market hed been' yell cleaned out and disinfectant. sprayed lover, the stalls formerly" containing! Jdceayed meat, fish and vegetables. In other parts of the Eastern district bodies "had been removed or des-
'The Chusan Road Market, near the Ward, Rosd Goal, sti was one of the "bed. spate!" mn. the Wayside district. 'Terne Mghting had taken place there. 'The streets. were titter-fed. with rile and. machine-gun om~ munition, much of Tt being' unused. in the market itself, on the ground floor "and. the tst oer, "remained leeveral bodies of Chinese soldiers who had been shot dead there, and. in anes about the market were other bodies of men who had died fighting 'There were shells of large calibre ying in out-of-the-way places, ava ing safe removal. 'Two. small hand-Jarenades, with the pins removed, which had' for some reason' been placed outside the wall of the Way-lode Police Station on Saturday, were fnapplly gone yesterday. The nuisance Was sill one of the chiot The Japanese authorities did. not anyone but their own nation~ als to proceed north of Haining Road fin Hongkew yesterday. Honghow throughout and territory to the east nese civilian men usually wearing arm-bands, suddenly called upon late on' Satur care Sages." The Interruption point between Woosung Fo'the international cable circuits of 2
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