In the course of Saturday night's military movement, civilians in Pootung were pressed into service to assist the Chinese troops in carrying supplies away from the area. Refugees who reached the International Settlement yesterday, related how they had helped to shift military necessaries a distance of fifteen li in some instances before they were allowed to return to their homes and evacuate. At the same time, it was said, the Chinese troops left some of their guns in the area. probably owing to the difficulty of transporting them over rain-soaked dirt roads.
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