The foreign guests were tepresentative of the military and naval forces of Great Britain, France, the United States, Italy and the other powers represented here, as well as of the SMP. and of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps." Also. present "were a few Chinese oMciats, presumably from the "Ta Tao City Government."
Al approaches to the parade ground wore heavily guarded by aval sentries with fixed bayonets and by Japanese consular policemen, while "special passes were necessary to get closer than one hundred yards or 30 to the review stand itself Sentries wore also on guard on both sides of the road %o the parade round once it left the Settlement roads. accordance with the usual procedure, sentries lined the road itself, facing inwards and towards the guests who "were assembled. to watch the: parade; only the official guest stand and the press stand was exempt from this milliary' guard, tanks," which slashed their way past, throwing up wads of dirt road' be:
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