The only thing to mar the quiet of the day was the sham battle held by the Japanese in Hungiao early "yesterday morning when residents of that district were rudely awakened by explosions and machine gun fire, which lasted for" almost hour, No commemoration meetings were held. by the Chinese yesterday and many "Chinese amusement places curtailed their activities for the day, and most of the Chinese cinemas, including the Golden Gale Theatre, remained closed, Chinese public bodies urged the Chinese population to contribute cash to the Government and to become members of the "Society of Friends of Wounded Soldiers," the head office of which is in Chungking.
Kuomintang propaganda was. conspicuous by its absence, although one Chinese was detained at No, 11
Pontoon on the Bund, just as" he was leaving for Pootuing with some seven hundred pro-Chungking news papers. The man was taken to a police sub-station on the waterfront, where "the newspapers were confiscated,
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