Nanking, Nov. 22 A ring of fortifications is being constructed around this city at a radius of about 2 kilometres, it is officially announced this morning.
The population is being evacuated steadily in order that the Japanese will have no grounds for attacking and destroying the city. The flood of refugees which continued throughout the past week is ebbing somewhat as the city is becoming gradually empty. Eighty per cent. of all shops and business houses are already closed.
The German Embassy has provided the members of the German colony Who have chosen to remain in the city to protect their possessions with special identification notices to han in front of their houses—Trans-
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