French Liner Held Up by the Authorities striking refutation of the Japanese editorial expressions blame ing the Shanghat Municipal Council for "chaotic conditions" in the Eastern district last August due to "withdrawal" of the Shanghai Municipal Police, stands the record of the Police in the area during that month.
Although shells, bombs and bullets struck on all sides, families and property were evacuated by the Police, the wounded were cared for and looters and other criminals dealt with, The allegation of a local Japanese daily that it became necessary to send Japanese bluejackets into the area to protect Japanese civilians hardly stands the test of an unbiassed examination of the facts.
One of the most impressive and absorbing chapters of the Settlement's 1997 war history is provided by one fof those Enstern police distriets—Kashing Road—along the east bank of Hongkew Creek and bordering Chapet on the north, which is now largely ruins.. There, as elsewhere "north of the Creek," the Police carried on the fice of constant danger, and unprecedented difleulties and did not evacuate until finally the war was well within their gates and the dis-Wiel. right and left, was being re-Gueed to piles of brick and plaster by artillery fire and aerial bombs On August 12, when practically all shops inthe area had closed their doors. the Hashing Road district oxperienced an influx of some 10,000 Fefugees from Chapel. The following day the trek assumed the nature of 2 panic after a night of heavy fighting. in Chapei, and sniping was reported long Hongkew Creek. From then Onwards the war was at close ra shells and bombs fell with increasing frequency, police and civilians were Wounded," stringent measures, were taken against looting, food stocks and other vital property were protected Aghinst attack. The Station, on the Chapel border, was struck by shrapnel and fragments of antiaircraft shells. Some foreigners and hundreds Chinese were evacuated by the Police, who also conveyed wounded persons and administered frst-uld.
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