Mr, Hiyoshi, District Inspector of the Salt Inspector's Office at Chin-Kiang, who came here yesterday from that city for safety abroad the K,-str. Tating Maru, in an interview with pressmen,—remarked:
It was on August 13 when the Southern troops began to arrive at Chinkiang. Since then Southern soldiers have been pouring in to the city from Yangchow and other places in the upper reaches of the river in junks. At present Chinkiang is swarming with soldiers who number several tens of thousands. The British Consylate, the residence of the American Commissioner of Customs, and a Japanese hotel, all of which are located in the former British Concession, are occupied by Chinese soldiers.
"I was one of the foreigners who remained in the old British Concession to the last, but feeling un-Pleasant owing to' the fact that a number of Chinese soldiers foreed an entrance even into the kitchen
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