The women left the city with bandages over their eyes. Once out side Chochow it was surprising how quickly their eye coverings were thrown off The plight of the refugees was pathetic, The mental agony d picted on their faces was expressive long physical sufferings and shattered nerves. Mothers with wan faces and sunken eyes, owing to weeks of exposure to peril and wolflike living conditions, clutched mere dolls of babies. Despite their bound feot they raced across no man's land, hogging infants to their breasts and in most instances pull ing older children by the hand. jand pass them on to the other aolders, and so on until the back areas were reached, The trek was towards safety over the first stone bridge on the old imperial Peking highway. Previous evacuations of Ankuochun wounded soldiers that very day had left a sinister trail of blood on the marble roadway.
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