Hankow, Aug. 27.
Walking for two days in the blistering sun through the fighting Lines, fording mountain streams, challenged time again by sentries at night, with war planes roaring' overhead, bombing, and sweeping the countryside with machine-gun fire, Miss THE, Bartlett, of Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, arrived here today—the first foreigner to reach Hankow from Kuling since the out break of hostilities in this aren.
'Tu an interview Miss Bartlett, who tso member of the China Inland 'Mission,' stated that she Jeff Kuling fon August 17 with Miss B. Huntamer, of the same mission.
The pair walked to Tehan, ied by three porters, ed their luggage and food.
They reached Singtze in the ing, and here the commander of Chinese forces ordered his men boll some water for them.y He advised them to leave imme-Jdiately, however, due to the imminfence of the Japanese attack.
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