The German catapult plane, Nord-wind sister ship of the Nordmeer which made the same flight last week, landed here at 2.30 p.m. today after a 2,397-mile non-stop journey from Horta, Azores—United Press, Battered by naval guns and aerial bombs, the Chinese troops who bore the brunt of the Japanese assault at the south-eastern edge of Kiukiang began evacuating the doomed city early yesterday.
Entering the city this morning close on the heels of Japanese troops, gendarmes immediately put into force measures to maintain order and protect foreign property.
Schools managed by foreigners were found to have been damaged by Chinese soldiers who had been billetted in the buildings.
Some foreign residences in the city were looted or damaged, apparently by mobs or Chinese soldiers before their withdrawal.
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