There are some non-Japanese in Hongkew besides the Police. Power and telephone company cars manned by foreigners are seen on the job, and there is a crew of red-jacketed P.W.D. coolies at work cleaning up in the large vacant space off Woosung Road north of Boone Road Where the odour of burned bodies still lingers, North of Haining Road no foreigners or Chinese are seen. From Haining Road the ruins of a portion of the Chinese Isolation Hospital, which was recently bombed by Chinese planes, are visible. In Woosung Road there are shell holes in ihe pavement, and near the corner of Haining Road a massive telephone Dost has been severed, the top portion hanging almost upside down from the point where the shell hit, The Fire Brigade sub-station now houses only a few old-fashioned engines and ladders and the main station in Range Road is without machines. Its front presents a normal appearance, only a few glass panes being broken where looters once penetrated. On the Other side of Woosung Road the wall of the Public and Thomas Hanbury School for Girls has been badly damaged, at the very corner, by a shell The full height of the wall has been blown away and now benches are piled up inside the compound to cover the gap. The fine building itself bears large shell-holes on the north side where Chinese batteries have found their mark.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.