Ichang, Nov. 24.
Between 80 and $0 foreigners remain in Ichang, where the Ichang Foreign Residents Emergency Committee has been formed under the leadership of Commander W. Orpen, Senior Naval Officer of the British river gunboat Gannett (310 tons).
The Committee has been organized for the purpose of arranging the concentration and evacuation of foreigners in event of an emergency. Plans have been formulated to remove foreigners to the merchant ships in har-hour, if the situation becomes dangerous.
Ichang has been experiencing almost daily air-raids during the past week. The worst raid occurred on November 17, when bombs struck the Catholic Mission compound. On the following day, many workmen's huts and matsheds were destroyed, but little damage was done to goods stored in port.
On November 20, large quantities of perishable goods, such as cotton yarn, cotton and paper, were set on fire, while about four persons were burned to death.
The objective of that day's raid appeared to be a large dump of supplies, of all description, which had accumulated below the town during the last six months.
The Catholic Mission compound, not War away, was not hit, however, during that raid, although members of the mission have since discouraged anyone from seeking refugee there because of its locality.—Reuter.
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