Tsingtao, Aug. 2, Fear of grave developments in the North China situation has precipita oda wholesale exodus Stricken Chinese from Tsingtao. Yesterday "alone over 20,000 are estimated to have left the port.
Chinese officials and their families: fare said to be leaving os fast possible, Meanwhile, a long queue of people is waiting outside the offices of the China Travel Service to obtain steamer or railway accommodation. An enormous crowd was at the railway station this trorning walling to board the noon train.
Japanese families, who have been concentrating here from other paris of Shantung since the outbreak of the North China crisis, are also being shipped back to Japan.—Reuter,
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