The sandbag emplacements outside the entrance to 13 Jessfield Road, opposite Avenue Road, were still manned by Chinese police yesterday. There are two redoubts, breast high and with horizontal rife slits near the ground, facing the kerb of the Settlement road. These emplacements actually rest on the Settlement footpath. They were said yesterday still to contain machine-guns manned by Chinese policemen. Yesterday after noon alterations were made to one of the redoubts by Chinese coolles worley Ing under the direction of a unlformed Japanese, Flanking the sandbags on either side are freshly mounted barbed-wire entanglements. All this within the British military sector, The Settlement Police, operating from a base at the Bubbling Well Police Station, continued to patrol the. district, day and night, with armoured cars. Four §, V.C. armour: ed vehicles are being used for this service, two of the ears being constantly on the roads while {wo are standing-by outside the police station, Foreign sergeants with Thompson ubsmachine guns, and Chinese, man Special patrolling in armoured cars has been carried out by the SMP. nee the encounter in which a foreign probationary sergeant, was shot in the back and two Spectal Munleipalpolicemen were killed and five Injured. It was og a result of this incident that the Japanese-sponsored Special Municipality advanced claims to jurisdiction over the "outside roads."
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