Boattoads at Women and Children Arriving Fortitude in The first boatloads of foreign scients from Kiukiang, Ha few intermediate ports arrived in Shanghai carly on Saturday ufternoon, the refugees bringing wth them in many instances searcely more than the clothing which they wore and all holding vivid impres:- ions, which they tried to cover uy with a show of cheerfulness, of the harrowing experiences through which they had so recently passed Of these the Indo-China st Tuckwo arrived first at tke old Ningpo Wharf in Hongkew and about an hour later the. Loonawo berthed at Hunt's Wharf in the same vienity. Anxious groups of friends and relatives were waiting: on the piers for the refugees who swarmed out on the decks when the bouts heaved into sight and might have' been merely the usual if somewhat more numerous passenger Washington, Jan. 7. Cyseseauet of the: U.'S, Asiatic Admiral C. "S.. Williams, thorities, who, competent authorities jate of opinion, acted wisely in choosing 4s an alternative an attack by the Nationalists.
The British Charze d'Affaires, O'Malley, is expected here on Mor Great Britain, this very Jarge issue must be squarely faced, The "Morning Poet aaye that the! throng on river boats except' for the aer-of tension which seemed to lie beneath smiling exteriors. The
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