Refugee's Double Misfortune in Evacuation The wholesale exodus of Chapei and Hongkew has brought double misfortune to Mr. Lin Shu-sung, 0 Tawyer, In addition to expenses in~ curred in moving out of Chapel, the family lost $3,000 worth of cash, Jewellery and clothing, when two hand-carts, laden with the property, disappeared in the stream of lorries fand other forms of transportation which poured into the Settlement and the French Concession.
The family lived at No. 47 Chun Chi Lee, Mongol Road, Chapel. With the evacuation of more than eighty yer cent, of the residents In the alleyway, Mr. Lin decided that it was perhaps wiser for him to move the family out of Chapel also. After a house had been rented in' Changsha Koad, he hired two hand-carts 10 remove valuables into the new ad-Gress on August 5, Laden with boxes of clothing and also household goods, the two hand~ carts started from Mongol Road at about 7 pim., followed by several members of the family in rickshaws, So thick was the trame on the Settlement boundary that it became. possible for the rickshaws to keep track of the hand-carts. As the rickshaws were likewise heavily loaded, the passengers found it dimeult to alight to locate the hand-carts in the tame jam, When the family tually made a search of the two hand-carts, no trace could be found. Although the coolles were told of the address In Changsha Road, they falled to turn up even at late hour on Aug. 6. The family has now given up hope of recovering the valuables,
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