[Apparently Safer for Foreigners to Live in: But Trade Prospects Bad Hankow, June 9.
As there seems to be considerable ignorance regarding the presen position at Hankow, some facts Jeoneerning the social side of life here may be welcome.
Following the seizure of the British Concession, British and American citizens were concentrated jon steamers lying alongside the Bund or in buildings, many of them palatial and capable at a pinch of holding a large number of men, on the Bund itself. Towards the end of May ramet began to be circulated that wives were to be allowed to return and a few actually came back, but so far no official authorization has been given.
Men began to remove to their houses and flats towards the end last month, but it was only in the first week of June that an official] notification was made that the str. Nganking would be returned by the Admiralty to ButterSeld & Swire on the 1éth of this month. There were also reports that Jardine's str Tuenho would be returned to. the owners-at an early date, no other 'The Hankow Club nowadays is rather a deserted spot, there being frequently nobody in' the bar at tiffin-time, only three or four people for tiffin and, Jater, 20 to 30 from 8 p.m. to 830, with wary few having dinner.
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