placed by the Japanese authorities at Scenes o paean of the barriers the entrance to the foreign concessions in Tientsin two years ago were witnessed at the Creek bridges yesterday. In the afternoon, hours after the shooting had taken place, access to regions north of the Creek could only be gained with the greatest difficulty. At the Garden Bridge it was only possible to squeeze through a milling crowd of Chinese and foreigners to emerge from Hongkew.
Pedestrians were searched in single fle by a sentry posted half way across the bridge, The searches were of longer duration than on other Similar occasions, The. search was slow and systematic with a complete disregard for the sex of the pedestrian or nationality.
Jonditions in Hongkew itself rer minded one of the early days of the EH
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