High praise is due to the Shanghai Volunteer Corps for the cheerfulness and competence with which they are tackling the con heated task of holding Sector, recently vacated by the departing British troops. Although only a temporary expedient, it is a necessary and important job, and the Volunteers are bue ickling down to it with their usual cheery efficiency. Despite the personal \convenience, there has been no lack of response from every man who can possibly get teave of absence from his firm, once again Shanghailanders have every reason to be proud of the Corps.
The above photo shows "B" block-house, at one end of Boundary Road.
In the foreground the S.V.C. sentry looks across at the Japanese sentry in his corrugated shelter, while in the background towers the war-torn shell of the North Station, French Police Close Washington Firm No Census-Taking Boundary Roads On Shanghai This Year Shanghai, Sept. 5.
The sight of barricades on. the French side of Avenue Edward VII and Foch gave ground to many rumours yesterday, some thinking, that these were erected in view of the serious situation in Indo-China, where the French colonial govern ment has received an ultimatum. from the Japanese for passage of troops into China, and the effect it would have upon the French Concession, Questioned by a reporter of the "North-China Daily News." a high French police official ridiculed these rumours and stated that these barricades had been put up in order to carry out more minute searches of fears and pedesitians entering the Concession: Recent outbursts of terroristic acre against members of the French police, the slaying ard abducting of several prominent Chinese, have forced the French authorities to take a more serious view of the situation, The same official, stated that these arrieades would" remain on the Concession boundary for some days, and that these measures would be tained as long as terror reigns in the foreign areas of this city Although "no. roads have bee closed by the International Settl ment Police, stricter searches were the order of the day, specially after Tuesday's (Sept. 3) assassination of Mr, Liu Teal-po at the Kin Hwa Res-(aurant in Foochow Road. Investigations are being carried out, but no arrests have yet been made.
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