At 345 pin. barbed wire was unloaded from military trucks and a group of twenty soldiers donned leather gloves to erect another barricade. They had hardly begun their work, however, when they were ordered to stop and the barbed wire was removed.
At various intervals during the afternoon, Japanese officers in plain clothes and uniforms, passed the scene in motor-cars but none of them. alighted, At 9 pin. yesterday evening, three British sentries were stationed on the other side of Great Western Road, whilst one foreign and three Chinese members of the S.M-P. were on duty in front of the building and a tent had been pitched in a British-owned garden on the south side of Great Western Road, where British soldiers detailed for duty at that point made themselves at home.
The immediate y mity of the station was devoid of pedestrian traffic although this had not been closed and a barbed wire barricade had been placed at the entrance of the alleyway adjoining the station, although it was so placed that persons living in the lane had free access,
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