Kiukiang, July 26.
Amid widespread looting of foreign property in Kiukiang, the installations of the Standard Vaccum Company and the Asiatic Petroleum Company were virtually unharmed, a cursory survey revealed to-day.
Also comparatively untouched were a girls' school operated by the American Church Mission and the Nanweilieh Institute.
Other foreign-owned buildings were mostly broken into the seals on the doors being broken, Their interior was in complete disorder. British, American, German, French and Italian flags were flying from these structures.
The four-mile waterfront was converted into a strongly-defended zone, with pill-boxes, trenches and barbed-wire entanglements much in evidence.
The Japanese Consulate building was found intact, but the Daigen Hotel and other' Japanese buildings were looted.
Set on fire by the retreating Chinesë on Sunday and Monday, the district between the new town and Nanchang Station was completely wiped out.
The aerodrome was flooded with water to a depth of about five feet pouring in from the Yangtze through breaches in the river embankment.
Japanese troops pursuing retreating Chinese found the roadhead of the Kiukiang-Nanchang Railway destroyed over a length of about one kilometre.
The rails were removed to provide reinforcement for anti-aircraft dugouts and pill-boxes.
A locomotive was found standing forlornly before the destroyed roundhouse in the station yard—Domei,
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