In Pitiable Plight: What is Done to Help Them Peking, April 18.
The following report of the Chinese Official Observer is dated Manchuli, April 3:—This morning there arrived another—the third—trainload of Chinese refugees from Urga, consisting of some 1,600 persons. The Chita Railway authorities are" paying special attention to the quick despatch of trains once they leave Verkhne-Udinsk, the trip in this this instance from that place to Manchuli taking six days, one of which was spent at Chita. From all accounts there are still over 20,000 Chinese, who have fled from Mongolia, to be evacuated, and the lot of the last batches will be worse than that of those who are arriving at present, for many of these have been able to save a little money to buy bread on the way, which they are sharing with those who have nothing.
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