Disronarding the agreement' mad bby them and the British Forees some months 9g0, Japanese trucks removed the barriers in North Thibet Road st 1240 am. yesterday to bring vegetables tothe New: Central Market, which is controlled by them in that street.
The barriers are usually. closed there from midnight to 4 ain. this agreement having been reach the Japanese and British military authorities, but yesterday: five Japan fosse trucks, loaded with vex rumbling 10 the scene, withstanding the protests of police= men on duty there, the Japanese removed the barriers and de their load at the. market was not known yesterday whether a protest would be lodged Shanghai, Dee. 21
Characteristic of the plight of the poor in Shanghai under present war an elderly 10, was found dead coffin wher he had retired for ight to escape the cold. accord ing to. the "Shun Pao." On Thurs jay evening the man laid. himself down to sleep in one of the many coffins owned by a charitable organt zation on Moule de Ningpo, Yesterday morning the coolies of the organization, who had come to remove othe corpse of the beggar in' it, Not a single day passes, since the arrival of the cold wear sleep out in the Fate, high cost of living and gon-Tinemplorment seem 10. five red against thew unfortunate cre farmers once but who are now many. of "whom. probably
esttute, homeless and" without friends er relatives, the paper said.
War has claimed 3 heavy. toll_on drum lives in China, But many more are perishing through abnormal cent Ciions in this big city of Shangha Engineering Society View Phone Exchange Shanghai, Dec. 19.
The Shanghai Telephone Ca. acted fag hosts to the members of the Eninecring Society of China and their viands on Saturday, when the second visit on the programme for the 1940- session was made to the Fokien Road exchange. Nearly 100 members with their friends took advantage of this opportunity. to look behind, the cones at a modern automatic tele-shone exchange. Telephone Ca.
neers guided he party through the building, showing "the visitors. the Schon! room where the operation of the "equipment. was explained by simplified' apparatus, the incoming and outgoing multipair cables, the power plant, the test room and the Automafie switching equipment eltal "operation in a specially alr enditioned roam and explained the Progress of 1)-eall_ passing through the exehanye. The room housing the information and time services. was also visited.
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