Chapoo Road was still cordoned oft with stout ropes yesterday while Sapaneso blue-jackets with fixed bayonets stood by to see that no one should pass the prohibited area. As most of the Japanese residents north of the Creek reside in the North Szohsien Road and Dixwell Road areas, they were put to greater inconventfence than foreigners living in, Wayside and Broadway or East Seward Road who could proceed by bus up to the Garden Bridge and then walla unhindered into the Settlement, after erossing the bridge.
Passage along North Soochow Road yesterday was restricted and the General' Hospital found itself in a predicament, being isolated for a time from the Settlement. min the morning any patients could not] sain access to the hospital. The res~ lions on Boone Road yesterday were lifted, much to the relief of residents in' the locality.
Motorists and vehicular _trame north of the Creek did not got off any easier than the pedestrians, having to wait a considerable time before being allowed to proceed.
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