Hankow, Oct. 26. [WE two hundred and fifty odd Britons and the 750 other foreigners in Hankow are all reported to be safe inside the Special Administrative Districts, where, complete calm reigns.
The fires which raged throughout the night are beginning to die down, though occasional explosions in the native quarters of the Wuhan. [Cities could be heard this: morning.
Hitherto only one building has been blown up in the Special Administrative Districts, British naval nding parties having removed explosives from all other buildings adjacent to British property, including the Yokohama Specie Bank.
'Anxiety continues over the fate of the waterworks, which the Chinese still threaten to' blow up, but Father Jacquinot is proceeding to the scene make a direct appeal to the Chinese to spare the plant.
Visiting the Japanese concession corly this morning, Reuters Correspondent found that, in addition 0 the damage already reported, the Jepanese consulate had been blown up, as also the Japanese Navy Hend-
The streets in the former Japanese Concession were all deserted and strewn with debris from yesterday's res. Only an occasional straggler as visible.
Outside the "Concessions Areas" the offices of the Kuomintang and the Hanyang ironworks are still blaze ing, while there are several fires in Wuchang in the vicinity of General Chiang Kai-shek's former Headquarters.
Telephonic communication through: out the Triple Cities is mostly dea
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