The affair was greatly complicate ed by the fall of a heavy snow which came in ona strong wind and which served to facilitate the work of destruction, The soldiers would loot and wreck and disappear in the dark. ness, but all the while they kept, guards posted along the river to give warning should help come from Nanking.
Mr, Hearne was not new to thes outbreaks, he having been one of the first foreigners to return to Nanking after th 1927 and later he remained at his post in Pukow when the town was occupied by northern soldiers while Nanking was held by men from the south, \At that time he was under fire almost continually and his personal loss was great. In this affair several ballets struck his house but no one 'The men went st about 3.30 in' the morning and Pukow was again left to ponder over its old familiar ow it would get along iraad sheds and rolling stock put out of commission. It] would seem that whenever an outbreak occurs one feature of it is the wrecking of the T. P. R. yards at Pukow and one cannot help but sympathise with the shareholders and the lone foreigner who has held down his post here for years in the face of discouragements that would. have long since caused many another man to give up.
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