Sailing of s. Kutwo from Wharf is Delayed: Over 2,000 Would-be Passengers Refugees in large numbers con~ tinued to leave and arrive here on Aug. 7 by water, rail and highways.
While the stream of migrants from the Northern area were still pouring. into the city with their belongings, ind further hundreds came by rail to the North Station, other hordes left, chiefly by water, for points on the' Chekiang coast and the Yang! River.
Most spectacular, perhaps, was the departure of Jaréine's s. Kutwo for river ports. She was to have sailed from "Hunt's Wharf at midnight on Aug. 6, but her deck space became crowded during the evening that her sailing was postponed again jand again. As the master of the ship refused to leave early the next morning with the approximately 2000 Chinese who had boarded the vessel it became necessary to call upon the River Police and Settlement Police to shift most of the would-be passengers.and_ their belongings Back to shore. This task was gradu-Jolly performed and it was finally Dossible for the steamer to sail, with Jabout 500 passengers, at 10:0 o'clock. that morning.
The B. & S. s. Hsin Peking pulled out from the French Bund on Aug.
bound for Ningpo, filled to capacity with Chinese" passengers. Various smaller steamers were: soon standing out into the Whangpoo from the Nantao Bund likewise crowded with "refugees. And yet. many' had been turned back from all these boats, [There was a heavy movement of passengers, also, by boat-trains the Whangpoo and Yangize Rivers: Jand the: Soochow Creek.
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