Yiow of the intux of people from interior, especially slong the Nanking-Shanghai and Shanghal= Hangchow-Ningpo railways, the All-Shanghai Association for the Support of Armed Resistance, organized by numerous local public bodies, as sent an urgent wire to the Kiangsu Chekiang Provincial Governments asking the authorities to prevent the refugees from flocking to Shanghai.
'The telegram points out that -with the heavy exodus of residents Chapel and Hongkew into the Settlement and the French Concession, a serious housing problem nas arisen. 'The increase "in the population by' arrivals from the interior will no doubt tend to aggravate the question of food supply.
Continuing, the telegram reminds the authorities of the recent atrocities in Tientsin, As Shanghai is the biggest sea port in China, it would not escape similar fate, and the con cessions here are certainly not heaven 'Ag far as the question of safety is concerned, it is wiser for the people fo remain' in the interior than move to Shanghai.
Tu. conclusion the Association requests the authorities to instruct the hhslen governments in the two provinces to advise the people against moving to Shanghai so that order niay be maintained and to prevent, unnecessary hardship.
Tu view of the heavy exodus, Chapet Police have doubled their patrols in the streets. This stop is being taken for the maintenance of peace and order, the authorities announce, When the CMSN. s. Hein Kiangteen sailed from the Kinleeyuan Wharf, Nantao, on August 7 at 5 pany several hundreds of refugee families were left behind on the jelly for lack of space on board the ship to accommodate them.
Two-Way Trame 'A large number of Chinese and Japanese refugees passed through Shanghai on Aug. 8 bound for, in the case of the Chinese, Yangtsze river and Chekiang ports, and, in the case of the Japanese, Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama. Besides, thousands came into the International Settlement and the French Concession from the northern area, western Chapel and Nantao, and by rail from points on the Shanghai-Woosung Railway and the Shanghai-Nanking Railway.
Steamers, under British and Chi. nese flags, which left for Ningpo and Hankow again carried capacity numbers of refugees. The s. Tuck Wo, Jof the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, was delayed for hours at Hunt's Wharf, Hongkew, and left behind hundreds of refugees on the wharf. Many families spread their bedding on the ground and on piles of stone on the jetty, waiting for better luck on subsequent boats. Food hawkers thronged the wharf to supply the needs of the hundreds camping there on August 8. On other jetties other hundreds waited.
Japanese families left in numbers for their home country, some being refugees from up the Yangtze River and others being from the North Szechuen Road district of Shanghai, The exodus from—Hongke: Chapel, Kashing Road, West Hong-Kew, Yangtszepoo, Kiangwany anit the western "outside roads" area continued heavily on Aug. 8 It was
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