Kiukiang, Oct. 18.
On Wednesday, September 29, a telegram was received at Kuling from Dr. Libby of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, Nanchang, urgently requesting medical help in dealing with the large number of wounded, who were coming in of lying around as @ consequence of the heavy fighting which was taking place. Accordingly an emergency Fmeoting of doctors and nurses was held at the Estate Office and st was decided to form two celief parties, which went off the same day by Aifferent routes. The reason for {forming two parties was that, since communications were so bad and uncertain, if one party was held wp, the other might stil get through.
One pasty comprising Dr. Bolton, Nurse Howard, Mrs. Libby, Messrs. Hobby and Savage and one Chinese nurse, left at 2 pin. vid Nankang Pass to Nankangfu on the Poyang Lake, theniae on board Mr. Savage's motor launch to Nanchang. Phis party had very, bad luck. They encountered very heavy seas due to the high wind, necessitating their tying up for the whole day; they] got into the wrong channel; they] stuck on sandbanks and finally about an hour from their goal ran out of petrol. Eventually they arrived at Nanchang after dark (7,30 p.m. on October 1), to find that, the other party, comprising Drs. Cundall and Tudd,, Messrs. Brazencr, Twidell, Lichtenberger, Mawrey, "and two Swedish nurses, who had travelled by rail, had arrived six hours before them.
Members of these parties have just returned and can give us Yeliable news of conditions in and round Nanchang.
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