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SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT SHANGHAI, Aug. 25. Foreigners are becoming increasingly worried by the Japanese construction of wire barricades around the entire settlement and French concession, fearing the possibility of a repetition of the 1939 Tientsin blockade. The Japanese military authorities say the barricades are designed for a closer check on the Chinese. The Japanese have constructed 25 miles of barbed wire barricades and have also blocked the highways into single-lane thoroughfares. Some informed circles anticipate that in the event of the Pacific situation becoming worse the Japanese might blockade Shanghai, cutting off essential food supplies, which would probably result in Chinese rioting, which would give the Japanese control of the municipal police and administration.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24696, 27 August 1941, Page 7
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