NEAR SHANGHAI
POWERFUL FORTIFICATIONS
LONDON, December 5,
The "Daily Herald" says that Japan is building powerful fortifications, an air field, and a vast military camp near Shanghai, in order to cut off the city and forcibly maintain, if necessary, her refusal to reopen the Yangtze River to commerce.
Naval engineers are carrying out the work with the aid of an army of Chinese prisoners and forced labourers, 30,000 of whom are excavating and filling in the swamp near Kiangwan for the airport with bricks and stones from the ruins of Chapei and Hongkew.
Sales of confiscated land are financing the entire undertaking.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 136, 6 December 1938, Page 11
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