Barring the unexpected completion of the Ningpo River boom, about 150 foreigners who are being evacuated from Mokanshan and the Ningpo area should arrive in Shanghai this morning in the s. Hsin Peking. The vessel is expected to arrive alongside the French Bund at about 10 am. Most of these foreigners are American missionaries, the party also including several Britons and Germans from the mountain summer resort. is Sometime last night, the s. Hsin Peking was to have left Ningpo with the special party on board, but no message was received in Shanghai giving confirmation. according to the Tocal office of the China Navigation Company.
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