is admitted in the report that Chinese native goods manufacturers and import and export merchants here have suffered great losses as a result of the closing of the Burma route and the Japanese move In Indo-China, Goods transported by." these two "routes, it is" explained, are mostly commercial goods, wilh mill-{ary goods occupying a' secondary place.
Shanghai has been the pivot of transportation of all such goods through the international routes the southwest, Thousands of dollars worth of goods were sent to Haiphong from Shanghai monthly in the ast.
Local Chinese merchants have now Jost all hope of sending their goods {o "free China" through Indo-China, It stated that since the destruction by the Chinese of the international bridge for the Laokay bridge of the rail connecting Yunnan and Indo-China communication has been interrupted and that even should the Shanghal-Haiphong shipping be resumed there will be no means of transporting goods to the interior through the Indo-China route, Jewish Refugee Shot by Japanese Sentry Shanghai, Oct. 2
Precautionary measures, taken by the Japanese military authorities. fol-Jowing the assassination of an oMMeey in North Szechuen Road on Sunday evening by an unidentified Chinese gunman, were the cause of ancther shooting at about 4 pin, on Monday when a. German-Jewish refugee Was, wounded by a Japanese Naval Land: ing Party sentry on the Hompkew Bridge in East Broadway.
The shooting took place after the sentry detained the Chinese driver of a truck and ordered him to wait in the sentry booth for further exs: mination. "A "bus_arfived at the bridge at that time and the sentry Inspected the passengers and allowed the chauffeur' to continue,
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