With 110000 Chinese back in the city, Soochow now enjoyed conditions "probably nearest to. normal of any town, between Shanghai and Nanking" à Japanese Embassy spokesman saíd last night. The peace-time popWaton of the "Venice of China" was placed at 200,000.
Basing, hiis otatements on, the report of, à Japanese "consular. official who returned from Soochow yesterday, the spokesman. declared that the Peace Maintenance. Commission, with a staff 100, persons, was, obtaining, satisfactory.resylts, "About: 900 policemen had been recruited and were now on awy, he added, Three thousand destitute Chinese were receiving free, gruel daily at geven kitchens, while more than 100 regular pati applied for treatment daily at the three free clinics operated by the Japanese Army in the city, he asserted, Telephone service had been restored as.hgd ferry services to vari-cus town ages accessible from Soochow l and river, the spokesman declared,
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