Registration of the Chinese who wish to take up residence in the area goes on daily at offices of the "Great Way" Government. In Chung Hwa Road, South Gate, may be seen a long queue of Chinese outside the Ta Tao municipal offices, two policemen re-Eulating the admission of these would-be residents into the registration office.
A general walk through Nantao reveals the efforts of the returned inhabitants to find shelter. In some neighbourhoods they are able to reoccupy relatively undamaged buildings. In other cases, as may be noted in Tungkadoo near the river, huts and other frail structures have been put up to house families of the poorer class.
A search for materials—metals, wood, coal and various utensils—goes on in the ruins, and there is a fair amount of business on a small scale, by food hawkers and petty merchants, in the principal streets where the destruction is not too great. The spirit of the small population appears to be hopeful.
The Japanese army has sentry posts at the important crossings, where Ta Tao policemen with yellow cap-bands also are stationed. The motor traffic in the area is mainly Japanese, and many of the army lorries enter the "City" by way of the French Bund. Within Nantao the: lorries are used for other than strictly military purposes, such as the transportation of foodstuj and Chinese coolies may be seen riding in them side by side with Japanese soldiers.
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