Across a small bridge crossing Soochow Creek near the Ichang Rosd fire station, U-S. Marines and Japanese Naval Landing Party forces faced teach other. The marine corporal. charge of the detail at the South end fof the bridge declared that exactly two years ago he had stood guard at the very same bridge and had faced the grining countenances of numbers of the Chinese Army at the other end. Soochow Creek had its Usual placid front, with its hundreds of craft, alive with swarming Chinese families, huddled close to the South bank of the creek.
Robison Road, extra-Settlement thoroughfare on the edge of Shangha's ill famed badlands, literally teemed with thousands of Chinese men, women and children, armed "patrols of any nationality whatsoever were seen in this area, The only armed men were the mem= bers of the Ta Tao police standing guard outside police sub-stations while various other "Ta Tao" police officers, armed only. with batons, mingled with the milling throng. Robison Road met Brenan Piece a Squad of Mahan Marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets and with sub-machine gun mounted for in-ant "use closely watched all cars pedestrians passing the intersect
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