Tehang, Nov. 24.
Between 80 and 00 foreigners. main in Tehang, where the Tchang Foreign Residents' Emergency "Committee has. been formed undes the leadership of Commander 'W. Orpen, Senior Naval Oficer ofthe British Fiver" gunboat Gannett. (310 tons).
"The Committee has been organized for the purpose of arranging the concentration and evacuation of foreign-frs in event of an emergency. Plan Have been formulated to remove foreigners to ihe merchant ships la our, ifthe situation becomes: dan-serous.
Tehang._ has. been experiencing most daily air-raids during the' past Week. "The worst. tald occurred on November 17, when bombs struck the [Cathotle. Mission compound. On, the following day, many workmen's huts and matsheds were destroyed, but Ute damage was done'to goods sored ort On November 20, large quantities Jot perishable goods, such as cotton yarn. cotton and pier, were set on burned to death. a re, "while about Your persons
'The objective' of that day's raid appeared to be a large dump of ape piles, of alt "description, which hed faceumulated below the town during the fast sie months.
The Catholic Mission compound, not far "away," was not" hit," however luring that raid, although members of ihe mission have since discouraged anyone from seeking refugee there because of its loeality.—Heuter.
The municipal authorities have ordered evacuation of 1,600] families within three days, and also the immediate evacuation of all per~ sons without definite duties or employment here, while all sctiools have} been instructed to move into the} countryside.
The authorities are, in the meantime, constructing 400 public dug-outs.
Fearing a possible interruption of the power supply, they are _also testing hand sirens,' which have been installed in different parts of the city for use in the event of a breakdown of sirens operated by electricity Reuter,
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