The Archive · 1937

5,500 REFUGEES IN TWO SHIPS

Rosalie Moller Sails for Keelung with 4,000

Shanghai, Sept, 22.

About 5500 Chinese were evacuated from" Shanghai yesterday by two. vessels. The. s. Rosalie "Moller continued her heavy evacuation duty by' sailing from Shanghai with approximately 4,000 Chinese on board She is bound for Keelung, Formosa, From Keelung she will sal for Amoy and then back to Keelung to make another trip to Amoy before return: Ing to Shanghat in about two weeks? tine. "Her heavy cargo of refugees and baggage will be stridly out bound, for she is expected to return with her decks and holds nearly Belwoen 1200 and 1,500 refugees: wre crowding the decks of the s. Hsin Poking yesterday afternoon 33 she pulled away from the "French 'Bund to make yet another overnight {rip to Ningpo. 'The jetties along the Bund were well' covered with spectators to see the vessels. steam down the iver" past the Japanese warships.

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