The Archive · 1927

ADMIRAL C. 8, WILLIAMS

U.S. Cosntaxnentecaier ey Tie 'A. P. C. Compound, with supplies enough for 12 weeks and fully] armed, according to reports given by passengers who arrived India-China ste. Tungwo which sailed from Hankow on lust Thursday maru ing and reached here shortly past 3 pam, on Monday after considerabi delay en route.

The Tungwo curried 80 passe gers, of whom 23 were children. Besides the usual discomforts which were necessarily experienced on the voyage in which first class accommodation usually allotted to Passengers stretched to accommoda: ate 80, there wa dean regarding two sick ladies for whom, ambulances were wailing at the]

Old Ningpo Wharf, where the steamer berthed.

Like the refugees fiom Haskow who arrived Saturday and Sunday Monday's lot had boarded the steamer at short notice on Weduesday evening and were able to brine only hand luggage. Stories were told by these passengers about the)

ficulty of wetting their baggage! on board, picketing eerilies boiss on [the Hankow wharf and insisting! [¥pon carrying the foreigners' lux gage at outrageous charzes. One foreign Indy said she had paid $20] for five small picees acd that lady accompanying her had paid simply because she had it From French Concession Too British living in the French Cen-cession were told on last Wednesday night that they would have to leave within an hour in order to catch the Taunch waiting to take them on

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