The Archive · 1939

Wiring Countermanded

At 345 pin. barbed wire was uns Joaded from. military trucks and a group of twenty. soldiers donned Teather loves to erect another bar Fieade. "They had hardly begun their work, however, when' they were ordered to stop and the barbed wire was removed.

'At various intervals during the afternoon, Japanese officers. in' plain clothes and. uniforms, passed the in motor-cars but none of them ted.

AND pan. yesterday evening, three British "sentiias were stationed the other side of Great Western Road, whilst one foreign and three Chinese embers of the SALP. were on duly front of the Tuilding anda tent had been pitched in a British-owned vardon on the south side of Great British soldiers detailed for duty at that point made Themselves at home Tmmediate vicinity of the was. devoid of pedestrian trate although this ad not been ide had been placed. at the entrance of the alleyway adjoining the station although it Was so placed that per-the' kiwe had free Sune 19.

Shanghat und the "Ta Tae" authorities have been successfully concluded with regard to the status of the "Ta Tao" police station ut the Columbia and Great West hace ence, 6 Withdrawn at too Yesterday, it was offlelally learned.

The "Ta Tao" police ure ty be per mitted to occupy. the building with police constables bist they have tndertaken not to function outside the front of the building adjoining the snunielpal road and. for their movements they will utilize the side entrance having access to "Ta Tao" territory US. College Hit by Japanese Bombs Shanghai, June 13.

At the Japanese press conference yesterday, a Navy spokesman stated ihat the raids on Chengtu and Chi king had been made at about the same time. The units. taking part both raids arrived at their destina tions at fifteen minutes after sunset, fand at Chenglu the Headquarters of the "28th Army, the provisional Government Headquarters" and the Headquarters of the Szechuen Tangs pu were bombed, hits having "been Scored on the Government Heade and the Tanguu as well a the building of the "Fiance" Come The spokesman stated that apanese planes "were subjected nonced about 18 Chinese planes had risen into the ult to engage the Japanese raiders. Three of these Were shot down and another one wax also believed to have been shot down, but information on this) point was not. available, Within the city, he continued, anti aircraft positions" were located im= mediately west of Szechuen Univer sity. During the bombing one bomb wut astray and ita building in the centre part of the West China University, he said, and since the University' was "American "property, special efforts had been made by Wie Japanese not to hit it by setting the bombers' course from the south-west to west-south-west. 'This had been Jdone because the deviation of a bomb wax usually more in a forward and behind direction than at' the. side, As-a result of an attack by the Chi-hose planes, however, the bomb had tone astray,

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