Strict search regulations enforced by the Japanese authorities in Nantao following the killing of a Japanese gendarme in the native city three days ago, which resulted in the closing of the iron gates separating the Chinese area from the French Concession, continued to bring anxiety and inconveniences to hundreds of Chinese residents in both Nantao and the foreign areas in Shanghai yesterday. Early yesterday afternoon, there were still no signs of the gates. near which numer-Ous persons were stranded, being reopened. Prices of vegetables increased in both the Concession and Nantao as a result of the blockade.
Residents living in the Settlement, who happened to be in Nantao several days ago when the gates suddenly were closed following the shooting for which no arrests of actual attackers had been made known up to yesterday afternoon, despite careful searches, mostly have been stranded in the Chinese city here. Those who work in the Settlement but who have their homes in Nantao, also suffered great inconveniences, having been forced to live in homes of friends or relatives It was even reported that many Stranded persons had to sleep near the gates, anxiously awaiting their reopening.
Houses Cleared Nantao residents, who happened to be in foreign areas at the time when the gates were closed, experienced the same difficulties and a few of them were met by a representative of this journal yesterday. They said that they came to the Settlement, never realizing that the gates would be closed. Strict searches were said to have been conducted by the Japanese in the native district, especially in the vicinity of Fu Vu Road where the Japanese gendarme was shot dead by three gunmen, Many of the residents were forced to leave their houses in order that they could be 1 searched more carefully it was said. There had been brief periods when some gates were opened but for the main part during the past few days the blockade had been effective.
Reminiscent of the effective blockade effected by the Japanese in the Western District a few months ago following the shooting of another gendarme there, the Nantao blockade was already affecting residents in many places. Nantao vegetable vendors have not been able to come into foreign areas and, owing to the shortage, their prices went Fortunately. in Chapei could still find their way into the foreign ereas but their prices also were high Rickshaw Pullers Held According to the evening edition of the "Sin Wan Pao" yesterday. rickshaw pullers operating in Nantao were detained throughout Sunday night in Pong Lai Road, Nantao. They were released yesterday but they did not resume work. They were detained because the three gunmen who shot the Japanese gen-dorine rode in rickshaws while escaping. The story was more or less confirmed by a Nantao resident who came into the Settlement late yesterday afternoon to resume his work after taking a roundabout trip.
The "China Evening News" reported that many poor people could not afford to buy rice in Nantao yesterday because a shortage caused prices of the grain to go up. It was asserted that in some cases a picul of rice was priced at $200. The paper also reported that many Na sidents had been arrested.
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