Japanese motor-scows made several trips up the Soochow Creek from the" Whangpoo' River on Nov, 27. and seized between fifteen" and twenty Chinese Jaunches and barges moored above the Honan Rond Bridge, Army groups in the scows conducted the operations, The Chinese craft were towed to the Whangpoo with their crews, mostly from the vicinity of Shanse Road Bridge, They included one Jnunch which, although Chinese= owned, flew the Council fay at the time of seizure, being one of the boats working under contract for the P.W.D, Several thousand Chinese watched the seizures being made from points of vantage along both sides of the reek and on the bridges, The last prize" was towed away at about 'The Shanghai City Government Ferry pontoon, at the foot of Peking, Rond, which' was "captured" Friday, remained at its mooring yesterday with a crew of Japanese soldiers on board, One of ihe tiver ferries, alongside' the pontoon, also fics the Japanese ting, When the subject of the seizure of the craft In the Soochow Creek was brought up at the press confer ence yesterday afternoon, the military spokesman said that' as yet had received no report on the mat ter, and was therefore not in a posl= tion to give out any information,
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