The experience of one of the men was fairly representative of the rest. He had no need to use his keys. The front door was ajar but it took two pairs of shoulders to force it open. The opposition was the piled up chaos of his possessions. Everything, he said, that could be lifted, wrenched or shoved had been piled in the centre of each room. The confusion had been completed by cans of motor car* oil thrown widespread. Unlocked boxes had been battered open; pictures had been splintered, A wireless set had been broken by a rifle butt and pitched out into the rain. Trampled, mud stained, a suit of dress clothes lay on the floor, All the more circumspect clothing had been taken. Bottles of beer, whiskey and gin'on a kitchen table had been decapitated, the contents left untouched. Tins of sardines and other foodstuffs had been opened and emptied oni -the floor. The flies were myriad thick.
The householder who told tha* tale of woe admitted that he had left in such a hurry that he had not run up.a neutral flag; also that shacks carrying flags had not been so severely plundered and maltreated. returned to Shanghai from Kuling and report an uneventful trip, coming by boat to Nanking and thence by train to Shanghai, leaving Nanking at 8.30 in the morning and, arriving at Siccawei ten o'clock that nig) escaping all unpleasant "incidents.
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Bubbling Well Road requests heavier clothing for distribution to American refugees and especially men's shoes, suits, overcoats, shirts and (the like, Many families have been burned out and lost all that they had. Articles may be left at the Club rooms or if they cannot be delivered please telephone 31856.
Tue Health Report of the French Municipality for the week ending September 18, shows that the total number of deaths from l causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population were—Foreigners 13, and Chinese 626. Deaths from notifiable diseases amongst the foreigners were '—Cholera 3, Tuberculosis 1; Chinese, Cholera 97; Typhoid Fever 4: Tuberculosis 2 and Dysentery and Pneumonia 1 each.
For the purpose of accommodating over 4,000 Chinese students, who have recently returned from japan, in various kinds of work, the Central authorities have opened registration offices in Shanghai, Nanking and Canton, where these students have been ordered to concentrate, states a report to "Sin Wen Pao." The local office is learnt to have been opened in the Pootung Guild Building on Avenue Edward VII.
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