Hankow, June 9. \HE Chinese Government offices are being transferred from Hankow.
The civil offices are being moved to Chungking, the present capital of China, while the military offices are being moved to the south, first to Hunan and later. to Kunming (Yunnanfu), capital of Yunnan.
It is learned that the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Education and the Interior will be established'in Chungking, in addition. to the Legislative, Judicial, Examination and Control yuan, which are already situated there.
The Ministry of Communications and the Foreign Office will be established at Kunming.
About 10 of the highest officials of leach Ministry will remain in Hankow for the present pending further developments, Tt is not Known where the head quarters of General Chiang Kai-shek, Communder-in-Chief of China's armed forees, will be located, but is practlcally certain that the military ofMfees Will be established in West Hunan.
Hengyang, in south Hunan, is also Ukely to become an important militery centre.
Trains, steamers and planes bound for the west and south, are erowderl with refugees of all classes who are streaming out of Hankow in an exodus which promises to eclipse that from Nanking last year.
Pathetic sights are to be seen at the headquarters of the Chinese Women's "War Relief Association, where hundreds of children are being. received daily from refugees who are tunable to care for them.
The children are being sent to special camps in Kwangsi, Szechuen' and Yunnan.—Reuter, Protest Against Japan's Mobilization Act Refugees Flock to Chengtu Chungking, June 9, Accommodation for 60,000 refugees: {from Hankow had been prepared, in Chungking and the surrounding disftiet, General Li Hung-kuan, the [Mayor of Chungking, told Reuter in fan" interview" today.
Eight areas had been set aside, he said, for the reception of these fugees in Chungking and Chiangpel, neighbouring town across the Kialing River, a tributary of the 'The problem of their accommodation, the Mayor continued, had been made cabler by the action of many [Szechuen natives, who had evacuated these towns to reside with relatives the—rural districts, in leaving their property vacant' for the use 'The authorities, General Li de> clared, could make no official arrange' ments' for the relief of destitute refugees, because of the demands on funds for war purposes. The richer Inhabitants of Chungking, however, were to be asked to contribute to a Hund for the use of refuge Geneva, June 10, Ant-Epldemle Cases Dr. Wellington Koo, chief Chines? delegate in Geneva and Chinese Amassador_to France, has transmitted to the Secretary of the League of Nations a Note from the Chinese Government pointing out. that the Japanese Mobilization Act also. appiles to the Pacific Islands Mandate, Thus, "the Note declares, the Act Violates the Covenant of the League of Nations.
"rhe Japanese Mobilization Bill provides for full utilization of the coun:
resources in time of war "incidents:" Regulations governing the partis! enforcement of the Bil) became effective from May 5—Reuter. domic precautions to prevent the spread of disease, because Jot the influx of such a large number of people, were being handled energetleally. by the City Government in collaboration with the doctors and the, Board of Health, the Mayor said.
It was hoped, he went on, that there would not be a large outbreak of disease during the summer, Discussing the war situation, Gen-loral Li stated that the Japanese need not think that even if they advanced on Hankow, the capture fof the city would mean victory.
"Hankow," he asserted, "is important to' China, but it it falls there are other routes available for obtaining supplies—the war will be
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