 After Japan retook control over the area at the end of the battle, Imperial Japanese Navy Land Forces evicted International Settlement police, and Japanese forces took full control over this area.During the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, the built-up part of the western extra-settlement roads area (east of the Shanghai-Hangzhou railway) were garrisoned by British and Italian troops.The British garrison area was much larger, separated from the Italian area in the northeast by Jessfield Road, and from the French concession in the southeast by Avenue Haig (華山路).