With lorries conveying ammunition and supplies up Broadway and ye-turning for more, the other side of the question, the evacuation from 'Yangtszepoo,' became all the more apparent. On more than one occasion, a lorry filled with refugees and their almost pitiful belongings would be passed by a naval lorry, with three or four men seated on top of a pile of ammunition cases 'Late last night it was learned that the Japanese -had billeted 300 men the Kung Dah Mill in Yangtsze-boo and were also using' the North District Primary School in North Szechuen Road, having taken over the. entire building. Commercial lorries were pressed into service being used throughout the.afternoon addition to the Japanese military vehicles.
All the Japanese naval landing perty patrols were doubled last night in the Hongkew area and wore steel helmets while carrying fixed bay-ones. Field telephone lines were run up in the Dixwell, Hongkew and Kiangwan districts in the vicinity of the Japanese headquarters, On the N.Y.K. wharf, right next fo the Japanese cruisers, were the Shanghai Maru and the Nagasaki Maru, express steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, which arrived within thirty minutes of each other yesterday afternoon. Both are {o. sail to-morrow, the first for Nagasaki and Kobe, the second for Nagasaki only.
Very few passengers disembarked, But on the wharf was one of the Greatest piles of passengers' baggage and household effects the wharf has known, Every bit of available sheltered space seemed to be packed high with cit bags, gunny bags, suitcases, trunks, crates, boxes and Daskets, "and more seemed tobe arriving every moment. Both vessels are to sail for Japan at 9 o'clock this: morning.
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