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Manhandled. Shanghai's muddy, winding, sampan-littered Whangpoo River divides the big modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested...
...first time since the 'trouble' started on Aug. 13 Ed Easley and I played golf. Place: Inside race course in heart of Shanghai. Time: Sunday, Sept. 26, 9.00 a.m. Par 35, 9 holes. Unusual hazards. Eight bombers over Pootung-bombs dropping-anti-aircraft gun fire, machine gun fire, screeching sirens of ambulances on Bubbling Well Road. Scores: Rotten...
...queer feeling you get as at present when the Japanese planes are bombing Pootung not over 600 yd. from where I am sitting...
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