Reports are conflicting in. regard to the conditions in Ningpo, The new regime's press says that there has been destruction in the district despite the recent hostilities and that con ditions have returned to normal with cheaper rice being. sent thet "Another Chil says that robbers have and that the black plague has taken six persons by death since the Japa ese occupation.
While Chinese reports thus: in= dicate that Ningpo is still. being blockaded despite the changed situation, strict shipping regulations are reported to be also enforced by the Japanese near Chusan Island off the, feast Chekiang coast where the Japan-were some time ago reported 10 have established a naval base. Three the Chinese report says that unloading has been forbidden which condition Is tantamount to detention, leading from the west gate to the downtown section of the ely, After {he ald" one scouting plane cruised over the eity.—Reuter,
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