Completing their "mopping up" operations in Nantao, Japanese forces entirely cleared the occupied area of Chinese stragglers late last week, a Japanese military spokesman announced at the morning press conference yesterday.
Large depots of arms and ammunition have been seized, "but isolated caches of Chinese military equipment may still exist," the officer said. He pointed out that it had been impossible to search every house in the congested area for arms in the short period of Japanese occupation.
Traffic across the Whangpoo to Pootung had been restored with the completion of mine-sweeping operations, while navigation up-river across the boom was again possible for shallow-draft vessels, he added.
With the exception of the South Station, which was completely gutted by fre. other public build plants were in "comparatively good state," he declared.
While the ministration building had been partly destroyed, most of the plant was intact, he stated. The Telegraph B hi ever, had been "completely looted" and was being used as a refugee centre.
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The waterworks were not destroyed, while the power house appeared to have been closed for three months, he said.
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