Negotiations are said to have been instituted by Dr. Oscar Trautmann, the German Ambassador, with the local Japanese civil and military authorities for the extrication of $400,000 worth of machinery and apparatus in National Tung Chi University at Woosung.
These machines. and engineering appliances, most of which were donated to the German-founded university by firms and organizations in Germany, were part of the equipment on the college factory. They were not removed before the outbreak of the local hostilities because of their heaviness.
With most of its buildings on its Woosung campus destroyed by Japanese gunfire, the National Tung Chi has found a new home in Kinghwa in interior Chekiang—Central News.
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