The Foreign Residents' Association had bought many supplies of food since May, he added, and there was no real shortage at the present time. A letter he had received from his wife at Kuling contained the news that the food supply there, too, was in no danger yet.
After his statement about the acid throwing Dr. Roots said that the treatment of refugees in Kuling had improved considerably during the last few weeks, while Mr. Stewart when asked for a statement about Hankow replied "It's a damned good place to go from at the moment." He added that he had been sent from Chungking to stay there temporarily during the Japanese occupation. In the French Concession there was a water shortage, he continued, but conditions were not too bad.
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