Shanghai, Dee. 19.
The scrap iron and cement collec ting work is still going on in the war-torn Chapel, "according toa Chinese report. More than 1,000 coolies are being employed for demolishing flimsy or partially destroyed structures "in order to obtain serap iron, bricks and cement The iron is sent! to Hongkew and Yangizepoo whence it is. transported to Japan, it Is stated, Thousands of tons of fron have thus been. col-
'AN present, it, is asserted, that there "are " stil" many conerete structures in the native city and therefore the coolies are still hard at work. 'The cement which they obtain "by demolishing concrete structures' is ground and sold. The steel network inside the concrete beans is removed and sent 10 Hongkew and Yangteepoo by trucks.
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