About 950 evacuees lett Shanghai yesterday morning in the #8, Empress [or Canada' bound for. Hongkong. In fed dition. to Britons, hose included many other nationals but the' major ly of the passengers were women and children. The passengers asscmed "at three stations before 9 oan, and were carried by three tenders irom the French Bund 10 the destroy Jers HAMS, Duchess and IMS. Dun-am, high tak them down the river the Empress of Canada lying the Woosung anchorage. "Once again British sailors played an important part in hething with the luggage and {Shine care of the women and. chi was yesterday afternoon on The Bund." Plan eye was turned upward, apprehen sive for reasons that horror-struck, Shanghai knows now too wel!
One remained unexcited, unperturbed, getting on with his little part of the war. He was a lowly PWD. Jeoolie, just _a street cleaner, in. his Tittle "red. jacket, his bags, blue, ragged. pants Tis estimated that over 18,000 residents of Shanghai ave evacuated since the beginning of hostilities here, Finis figure. includes "some 10,000 Japanese who have gone to Japa Keres, After haphazard arrangements for} the reception ofthe first batch of Shanghai in the. committee to take care of the. Mooding refugees and when the Empress of Asia arrived with the see. fond batch things ran more smoothly, [according to. Briton who returned from the Colony yesterday in the s. Sphinx. the strange antics of the men who Rew "and fought some hundreds yards away. And a last glimpse of him sow him plodding mechanical slong on the Bund foreshore, rod, picking up bite of paper—and. no] with refugees bt, cursing the carelessness those' we hod made more arduous with their cording of rubbish.
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