The Archive · 1939

Some Order in Canton

By degrees order has been restored the city. Shop employees and household servants who' have come ack, constituted themselves peace officers for their small. sections of town, and the Japanese brought the street organizations into a large parent organization to cover Canton. These men, together with the few tens of Japanese MPs who are: always on duty, constitute the city police. Where few have returned t0 reside they are without this tion, and sneak thieves cent enter premises in such areas.

The electric light plant on the Bund is also working, with a few, dynamos running and mechanics are at work repairing the others. On a umber of streets lights are turned.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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