Only a small traction of the vast Japanese property in Tsingino and ts. suburbs Tas escaped destruction at the hands of General Vu Hsuchchung's "former Manchurian troops, according to reports received here to-day.
Entering the city on December 17 and' 10, the soldiers immediately began to. mine Japanese official establishments, schools, hospitals, water reservoirs, power plants and the telephone effec.
On December 18, residents of Tsangkow, Szelang snd other arcas were ordered to evacuate their homes before nightfall. At 8 o'clock the. /same night, the cotton mills and other plants at Tsangkow and Sze-fang were blown up.
The sories of explosions, which were heard throughout the night, started a mass exodus from the city the next morning.
On December 20, armed with dynamite, Chinese soldiers set fire to and Blew up the buildings of the Tsingtao Warehousing Company, the Kiaotsi Steel Works, the Huahslang Lea ther & Hide Manufacturing Company and others.
Much Looting Altered Goods stored in Japanese shops on /Mukden and Linocheng Roads were looted by Chinese troops, the reports Jalloged. The shops on Chungshan, Canton' and En-hsien Roads, how-fever, escaped damage, On December 21, the Chinese soldiers completed the work of mining the buildings of the Suzuki Cot-fon Yarn Reeling Company, the Tsinglao Beer Brewery, the Hua slang Match Manufacturing Com-any and plants operated by the Mitsui and Mitsubishi concerns.
No further reports were received, but it was feared here that these structures were also blown up—
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