Latest statistics compiled by off cials of the Social Adfairs Bureau in accordance with instructions the Ministry of Industries disclose that the total damage done. Shanghai's factories by the war is estimated at more than $800,000,000.
An earlier report submitted by the Bureau to the Ministry stated that.
he damage to local factories amount fed to $964,535.27 and the number of destroyed lactones was 2,098, fatter the Chinese withdrawal from one Chapel area, With the evacuation of Chinese troops from the whole of Nantao Disteict, the number of destroyed factories has increased, including several large ones at Keochangmiao and Jihuixong, and the total damage 48 estimated "at over $00,000,000, according to the Bureau's oftcials,
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