Warning him that his next route te Hungjao would have tobe via Siccawei because of the new Chinese trench across Rockhill" Aye, the soldiers let Mr, Souter continue out Hungjao Road.
Hungjao Road was alive with Chinese soldiers, he said, Asked it they were marching or giving any signs of retreat, Mr. Souter said "Oh no. They were all busy digging in, constructing. ind setting up barbed-wire barriers, and apparently had no intention Jeaving very soon." No bombing ws progress in that vicinity at the time, the noise of war coming from farther north by Soochow Creek, he said, 'He noticed that some homes in Hungjao Road had been "damaged somewhat by the war and that many of them seemed to be occupied by Chinese soldiers, 'The Blind. Schoot had' been badly damaged and small groups of Chinese houses were in ting, apparently due to bombing, When he reached the #ungjao exchange, he found that the' building had been damaged in the south-east corner by a shell which had made something of a crater in the lawn. 'The damage was small, The building had Tong since been evacuated, the work there being shifted to' the Lucerne exchange.
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