One ex-resident has just received the following description of house which he, like everyone else, hhad_to leave just as it stood:
"Since the arrival of *4e Nati list Army at Chinkiang the house hae been continuously occupied by soldiers, who have lived upstairs while the servant and his family have lived downstairs. About all of the furniture has been damaged, sold, or used as firewood by the soldier. The books have been kept that a few big ones in which interesting! pictures were printed, have been taken away by the soldiers."
This gentleman's case is one of Before the exodus there were about 0 foreigners living in the Concession, and no foreign 3 were spared. Protestations that foreign property was on the point of being restored by the military have proved untrue, only a few days ago another body of leave.
The ceremony was probably as interesting as any in the history of the flag, though there were only five people there—the Vice-Congul, Mr, R. Montgomery, Mr, Moore of the A.P.C. and another businessman stationed in the port, and two sailors from H. M. S. Teal, The man-of-war had provided the ud flag, but no amount of ingenuity fon the part of there trying to fly could get it up the official fin pole which stood in the Consulate compound, The lanyards had gone the way of most useful things when Chinere troops are about, and a temporary flag-pole had to be Tigged out of a post, and fastened as securely as possible to the verandah of the consulate. Thus the flag was raised again, and the incident recorded in a photograph which we publish to-day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.