The first group to evacuate, consisting of teachers from the school and their children and a few pupils, numbered 16. They wore ready to eave about one hour after the final decision was taken on Thursday at, 8 pam. and the remainder on the mountain, some of whom were Patients in the hospital and others unable to leave at so short a avtiee, were to follow as soon as possible.
Chair coolies, although not averse to a little profiteering in the stress of the evacuation, were obtained, and the party with hand lugeag: arrived at the village at the foot the mountain where motor buses for Kiukiang were to have been boarded. They waited there, how
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