Trade with the Yangtze shipping companies is maintained and a re-Bular slow of supplies daily is being Sent to Shanghai, including hogs, chickens, eggs, cotton, sweet potatoes and peanuts.
From the beginning of the hostilities the people of Nantungchow and Jukao realized that the cities: were unsafe and fled to the country. Although in the early days of threatened Japanese invasion some of the Chinese thought to advance the idea of a safety zone, later on the consensus was that zones" were real danger zon'
Jukao people upon" the countryside as their area of safety. Up to the present time the country at some distance from Jukao has been the safest place for the average city refugee. Here Yormer sleepy villages now thrive, and the. productive "country has' abundant food supply, whereas the city is facing starvation diet except with Japanese help.
In general the crops in Tungchow and Jukao are fair. Near the cities all ig unsafe and a large zone about the city is more or less handicapped in the production of food and in trans portation. Jukao itself is dead, as the ordinary industries have come to a practical standstill or are at best but an artificial show of progress; many shops are robbed, and the remaining population, largely Poor people, are no help to the ma-ferial upbuilding of prosperity.
There is a great scarcity of doctors and nurses in the city and disease fs common. A call for doctors and nurses to return has met with Little 'oF no response. A temporary hospital has been opened by the Japanese, and schools are again opened, but the number of patients in the hospital and children at school is small.
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