The Archive · 1911

The Rush from Nanking

SCENES ON THE RAILWAY

Remarksble scones have been wit-remarkable feature of the traffic is that the number of natives leaving Shanghai has been as great as the number arriving,—on some days even greater. Although it has not been necessary yet to increase the train service, the ordinary sccommodation has been extended to the utmost, every train having been packed. Three through trains on Wednesday brought 757. 1,035 and 571 passengers, and on Tharedsy 737, 837 and 706, over 800 travelling from Nanking. The highest namber leaving the place on one day was 1800.

On the platforms there bare been vast piles of Inggage, everybody sp-

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