This city of six million people with its former foreign concessions which had stood inviolate during innumerable Chinese civil wars, was now protected only by a wooden fence and mud pillboxes.

• 这座六百万人口的城市里的外国租界，在历次中国内战中从来没有遭受战祸。现在上海只凭一道木栅栏和一些土掩体设防。