May 7.
'The Japanese authorities here were said yesterday' by a spokesman fof the Japanese Embassy to be giving full assistance to foreign interests reopening their industrial plants north of the Creek, The statement was made in response to a report in the "North China Daily News" yesterday morning alleging Japanese interference with the reopening of foreign enterprises in the Yangtsze-oe district the Sung Sing No. 7 Mill has been the scene" of several recent fires, {roops have been billeted in various Suildings, including the spinning rooms, and horses have been quart-fed next to valuable "machinery. Rome of the Moors are littered with fodder and dirt, and old hay may be een on top of the spinning machines. rhe compound is ju g state of con-
Fires and lack of proper care have vendered some of the machinery vir= tunily useless. Cotton stocks are there, wasting, Some of the cotton has been consumed by fre.
In the ease of the Ewo *Cotton till, 670 Yangtszepoo Road, which is now operating, itis "reported that} city has" been" met with in obtaining passes and stam quarters, vhs: mill, employs some 5,000 work. rs, but it ig reliably stated that the Sepaneso Naval Landing Party has Yetused fo issue passes for a majority of these hands. Tt is reported that Yess than Afly of the workers have tigen Issued with pastes.
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