Bearing an order from General Tong Song-chi, the Garrison Commander, Mr, Leslie C. Smith, of Routers, Mr. Tiiman Durdin, of the "New York Times," and Mr, Liv Tsun-chi," of the Central Nows, ied to eave Nanking on the night of December 9, but found it impossible to pass the Chungshan Gate, facing the river front, A long queue of 30,000 refugees, anxious to leave the city, jammed the Chungshan road Yeading' to the gate, General Sung Hsi-lien, Commander the 36th Division holding the gate, refused to open it, as he feared the Mampede "would result in heavy Next morning Me, Liu loft the city, and crossed the river by boat while Japanece planes were bombing and machine-gunning. Mr. Liu found Pukow deserted except for some soldiers, but the place was strewn with dead bodies after the bombings, Japanese troops first entered Nanking on December 12. atter breaching the city wall north of the Chungshan Gate, near the famous Ming Tombs. east. of the Dr o€'the Municipal "Centre, which was When Japanese troops occupied Purple Mountain between the Sun Yatesen Mausoleum and the" Ming Tombs, the Chinese were still holding the peaks of the mountain, but with= drew northward on December 13 and crossed the Yangtze vig Hsinkwan, Lungtang und Chihsiashan—Reuter,
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