To be Thinned Chungking, Sept, 25.
All residents in Chungking "without special work have been ordered by General Chiang Kal-shek's headquarters 10 leave the city with their families within one month as a precaution against air raids.
Final arrangements have not yet eon settled, but it is proposed that evacuees should settle along the Danks of the Yangtze and Kialing rivers and also on the Chungking Chengtu motor road, where adequate police protection is available.
No figures are available regarding the -number of people expected to, jerefore not for the welfare of China alone.
World. powers which take cogniz~ ance of this fact will be regarded as China's friends and their interests and treaty rights in this country will be respected, but those which continue to extend assistance to the Chiang Kai-shek administration with hope of gaining illegal interests wil bbe. regarded as the nation's enem} commission from Hankow is, in the meantime, "investigating the siate of Chungking's air defences. The Greatest monaco to the city is a disastrous fire, which will undoubted ly follow the dropping of any bombs: in the centre of the city owing to the congested and inflammable nature of the buildings—Reuter. tention of offending of the Powers, but it cannot remain indiffer= ent to the people's sufferings."
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